The former defense secretary told '60 Minutes' firing missiles into Mexico was just one of a number of 'dangerous' ideas from the Trump administration.
Esper said the idea to attack Mexico was one of a number of"dangerous" foreign policy proposals made by the Trump administration that"would have taken the country in a dark direction" had they been carried out.
These include proposing to"take military action against Venezuela," to"strike Iran" and initiating a blockade in Cuba. "These ideas would happen it seemed every few weeks, something like this would come up and we'd have to swat them down," Esper toldEsper said that in order to prevent such actions, he and General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came up with a"four noes" system."One was no strategic retreats, no unnecessary wars, no politicization of the military and no misuse of the military.
When asked why he has decided to speak out in public against Trump in a new book and not during his time in the administration, Esper said:"If I spoke out at the time, I would be fired. "And secondly, I had no confidence that anybody that came in behind me would not be a real Trump loyalist, and Lord knows what would have happened."Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks after he was sworn in as President Donald Trump looks on in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 23, 2019
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