Donald Trump considered bombing drug labs in Mexico, according to new book

[Judi Lynn]

Josh Dawsey
08:34, Sep 29 2022

As US president, Donald Trump weighed bombing drug labs in Mexico after one of his leading public health officials came into the Oval Office, wearing a dress uniform, and said such facilities should be handled by putting "lead to target" to stop the flow of illicit substances across the border into the United States.

"He raised it several times, eventually asking a stunned Defence Secretary Mark Esper whether the US could indeed bomb the labs," according to a new book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. White House officials said the official, Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir, often wore his dress uniform for meetings with Trump, which confused the former president.

"The response from White House aides was not to try to change Trump's view, but to consider asking Giroir not to wear his uniform to the Oval Office any more," Haberman writes in Confidence Man, an extensive book about Trump's time in New York and as president.

The 607-page book, which has long been awaited by many of Trump's aides, is set to be published Tuesday. A copy was obtained by The Washington Post. The book details unusual and erratic interactions between Trump and world leaders, members of Congress, as well as his own aides, along with behind-the-scenes accounts of his time as a businessman.

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Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir

[Turbineguy]

1. His unfitness for office will only

make him more popular with his supporters.

[doc03]

2. None of this stuff surprises me, Trump is a

raving lunatic. Trump well of course he did.

[tanyev]

3. Four years. For four years, the world's mightiest military was under the command

of a sadistic, impulsive child. Nearly every elected Republican and other leading Republicans accepted this, enabled it and publicly pretended it wasn’t so. Most mainstream media went along with the game and treated his unfitness as “gaffes” and opposition from Democrats as “politics as usual”. Every day we learn more things that many, many people already knew about and did nothing at the time except keep notes for the book they planned to write.