Trump 'considers plan to send hit squads to Mexico to kill cartel leaders'

While these plans were allegedly discussed in private, Mr Trump has publicly called Mexicans ‘rapists’ in the past

Kelly Rissman
2 hours ago

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is privately considering a plan to deploy American assassination squads to Mexico to take out drug cartel leaders if he is re-elected in November, according to a report.

Three sources familiar with the former president’s proposal told Rolling Stone that he has insisted that the American military has “tougher killers than they do” and is mulling a similar plot to that carried out when US forces killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi back in 2019.

The deployment would be covert, the outlet reported, and would not rely on the Mexican government’s consent.

Just earlier this year, one source recalled the former president saying that the US government should create a “kill list of drug lords,” consisting of the most notorious heads of drug cartels that a special-ops team would be tasked with killing or capturing, Rolling Stone reported.

Rolling Stone’s report expands upon Mr Trump’s 2024 policy proposals, dubbed “Agenda47”.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mexico-killcartel-leaders-b2541609.html