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Chapter 1: Is Trump really considering an invasion of Mexico?
So we've heard a lot recently about Donald Trump starting a trade war with our allies, but that may be the least of our worries. We are now hearing reports that Trump is thinking of starting an actual war with Mexico. You heard that right. Donald Trump is debating a full-scale invasion of Mexico, allegedly to stop the flow of fentanyl.
This could include sending troops, firing missiles, you name it. And these reports are corroborated by some of Trump's closest advisors past and present, not to mention comments Trump has made himself. My name is Brett Mycelis with the Midas Touch Network. Make sure to hit subscribe and help us get to four million subscribers. This is the new reporting out of Rolling Stone headline.
Team Trump debates, quote, how much should we invade Mexico? In Trump's government in waiting, the only question is how massive the US assault on Mexican drug cartels should be. I want to emphasize here, that's not if we should invade Mexico, which would be crazy enough, but quote, how much should we invade Mexico? I'm going to get into this new reporting in just a minute.
Chapter 2: What actions does Trump propose against Mexican drug cartels?
But first, I want to remind you that this is not the first time Trump has suggested this. Here's a clip from 2023 of Republican James Comer saying that we should have our military on the border and troops in Mexico. He also said that Trump ordered the military to bomb meth labs in Mexico, but they refused to follow orders. And he said that that was a mistake. Watch this.
I believe we should have a military presence at the very least on the southern border, if not across the border. One of the things we learned post-Trump presidency is that he had ordered a bombing of a couple of fentanyl labs, crystal meth labs in Mexico just across the border. And for whatever reason, the military didn't do it. I think that was a mistake.
In 2023, Trump ally Republican Lindsey Graham said he couldn't think of a better use of our military than to bomb Mexico. Watch this.
Chapter 3: What have Trump’s advisors said about military action in Mexico?
They're at war with you. You need to be at war with them. I can't think of a better use of our military than to blow up labs in Mexico, killing young Americans.
And if you remember, back in 2022, there was a whole lot of reporting out there saying that Trump frequently asked about bombing Mexico while he was president. There was this piece about reporter Maggie Haberman's book that said, quote, Trump weighed bombing drug labs in Mexico after he mistook advisor, new book shows.
Then there was Trump's former Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, who came out with a book called A Sacred Oath. And in that book, he also mentioned that Trump spoke about attacking Mexico. Per Esper, Trump wanted to bomb Mexico and then lie about it.
Esper wrote, quote, on at least two occasions in the summer of 2020, once in the Oval Office and a second time in his private room just off the Oval, the president approached me about a sensitive issue. Slightly hunched over with his hands motioning in front of him,
Chapter 4: How did Mark Esper react to Trump's invasion ideas?
Like a quarterback gesturing for a long snap, he asked me if the military could, quote, shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs and take out the cartels. Standing close to me as he spoke, the president complained that the Mexican government isn't doing enough. getting irritated as he spoke and adding, quote, they don't have control of their own country.
If we could just knock them, the drug labs out, he said, this would do the trick. What do you think, he asked. These conversations were quite troubling to say the least. On one hand, I shared his concern about illicit drugs, being trafficked into our country and respected his passion for wanting to stop this dangerous trade.
But asking the US military to shoot missiles into a sovereign country, and worse yet, our friend and neighbor, definitely was not the way to go about it. Working hard to conceal my shock at this idea, I said, Mr. President, we could do that. And as much as I want to stop these drugs too, shooting missiles into Mexico would be illegal. It would also be an act
I recommended that we look for more ways to help the Mexican government deal with the problem, such as increasing the training, intelligence, and equipment we are providing them. We should also take another look at ideas that were tabled in the past, but to simply launch air or missile strikes into Mexico would not only violate international law,
It would also destroy our relationship with Mexico and damage our global standing, I said. Trump took these objections in, pursing his lips as he listened. He then suggested we could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs quietly, adding preposterously that, quote, no one would know it was us. He would simply deny that we launched them.
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Chapter 5: What are the legal implications of Trump's military suggestions?
I had seen Trump spin his own reality before, so I had no doubt he was confident in his ability to persuade people we had not launched the attacks. However, we did not live in a world where the United States could strike another country and no one would believe the missiles were not ours. I also couldn't imagine the president would resist taking credit for the attack anyway.
It was nonsense, plain and simple. If I hadn't seen the look on the president's face, I would have thought it was all a joke. He wanted to get this planned and done by Labor Day around then, he said just a few months away. I was speechless. Trump thought this was the only way we could really stop this terrible trade.
I took a long pause and then said again, quote, this would be an act of war, Mr. President, and there would be no way to keep it quiet. Esper then went on Fox, and Fox host Brian Kilmeade of course tried to justify these comments by Trump, and Esper again reiterated that what Trump was suggesting was illegal and an act of war. Watch this.
These are almost like think tank questions when you guys are throwing out ideas, and do you think it's right to put that in a book? Well, he didn't propose sending a quarter million troops to the border. That was Stephen Miller. I never had that discussion with President Trump. But with regard to shooting missiles into Mexico, yes, I thought that was an act of war. It was illegal.
It should not happen. And those things should be discussed. And we did have a meeting, a National Security Council meeting, I describe in the book, where we sat around the situation room and discussed how to address the issue with cartels.
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Chapter 6: How do past events shape Trump’s current stance?
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Chapter 7: What alternatives to invasion did Esper suggest?
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The caption to this video here reads, At Bedminster, Trump said he, quote, did not want to deny the leak that he wanted to fire rockets into Mexico and was gleeful, saying that, quote, people loved it. Let's dig back into this new reporting from Rolling Stone.
They write, within Donald Trump's government and waiting, there is a fresh debate over whether and how thoroughly the president-elect should follow through on his campaign promise to attack or even invade Mexico as part of the war he's pledged to wage against the powerful drug cartels. Quote, how much should we invade Mexico, says a senior Trump transition member. That is the question.
It is a question that would have seemed batty for the GOP elite to consider before, even during Trump's first term. But in the four years since, many within the mainstream Republican centers of power have come around to support Trump's idea to bomb or attack Mexico.
Trump's cabinet picks, including his choices for Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State, have publicly supported the idea of potentially unleashing the US military in Mexico. So has the man Trump has tapped to be his national security advisor. So has the man Trump selected as his border czar to lead his immigration crackdowns. So have various Trump allies in Congress and in the media.
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Chapter 8: How does this situation affect US-Mexico relations?
Trump, who has routinely and falsely promoted himself as the candidate who would stop endless wars, now wants to lead a new conflict just south of our nation's border. But at this moment, it is, in the words of one Trump advisor, quote, unclear how far he'll go on this one.
The source adds, quote, if things don't change, the president still believes it's necessary to take some kind of military action against these killers. Another source close to Trump describes to Rolling Stone what they call a, quote, soft invasion of Mexico in which American special forces, not a large theater deployment, would be sent covertly to assassinate cartel leaders.
Indeed, this is a preliminary plan that Trump himself warmed to in private conversations this year. For this story, Rolling Stone spoke to six Republicans who have each talked to the twice-impeached former and now future president about this topic. Some of these sources have briefed Trump on these policy ideas in recent weeks.
These proposals of varying degrees of violent severity include drone strikes or airstrikes on cartel infrastructure or drug labs. sending in military trainers and advisors to Mexico, deploying kill teams on Mexican soil, waging cyber warfare against drug lords and their networks, and having American special forces conduct a series of raids and abductions of notorious cartel figures.
In some of these private conversations, including during this presidential transition period, Trump has told confidants and some GOP lawmakers that he plans to tell the Mexican government that they need to stem the flow of fentanyl to America somehow in a span of several months, or else he will send in the US military.
As Rolling Stone has reported since at least last year, Trump has solicited specific battle plans and different military options for attacking Mexico. Senator Marco Rubio, whom Trump chose to serve as Secretary of State, has endorsed the idea of sending U.S.
troops to Mexico to combat drug cartels under the conditions that, quote, there is cooperation from the Mexican government and that such operations are done in coordination with the armed forces and the Mexican police force. Fox News commentator Pete Hegseth, whom Trump chose to lead the Pentagon,
said last year that it could be in the national interest to deploy the military against Mexican drug cartels, which he has referred to as, quote, terrorist-like organizations poisoning our population. Quote, if it takes military action, that's what it may take eventually, said Hegseth. Obviously, you're going to have to be smart about it. Obviously, the precision strikes.
But if you put the fear in the minds of drug lords, at least as a start, and they can't operate in the open with impunity, it changes the way they operate. You combine that with actual border security, now you're cooking with gas and you got a chance.
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