Donald Trump plans to use special operations forces assassination squads to wage war on Mexican drug cartels if he’s elected president.
Sourced to “three people who’ve discussed the matter with the former U.S. president.” Rolling Stone, in what they think is a hit piece but which, in my view, amounts to a contribution to the Trump campaign and the GOP in general, asserts:
In some of these discussions, Trump has insisted that the U.S. military has “tougher killers than they do” and pondered why these assassination missions haven’t been done before, arguing that eliminating the heads of cartels would go a long way toward hobbling their operations and striking fear into the hearts of “the kingpins.”
The article notes that an idea that would have been considered radical a few years ago has now entered the Republican mainstream. Trump-friendly think tanks like the Center for…
