Going after former President Donald Trump with a vengeance, 58-year-old former Defense Secretary Mark Esper won high praise from Trump haters, hoping to prevent the former president from running in 2024. Esper’s book, “A Sacred Oath,” paints Trump as a dictator and threat to U.S. democracy. Such rubbish plays well in Democrat circles busy congratulating 79-year-old President Joe Biden for trashing the U.S. economy and launching a proxy war against the Russian Federation. Biden’s foreign policy has endangered U.S. national security to the point that he’s willing to risk WW III, possibly nuclear war, to complete his mission to degrade the Russian military to the point 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin can no longer wage war against his neighbors. Esper wants to nitpick about Trump’s four years in office, taking no honest look at the current White House occupant.
Esper wants to blame Trump for the Jan. 3, 2020 assassination of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Al-Quds leader Qaessam Soleimani. Esper goes to great length in his book to say Trump exaggerated Soleimani’s threat to U.S. embassies, despite admitting the threats were real, whether they were specified or not. Esper recalls the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing 52-year-old Amb. Chris Stevens and three other Americans. So Esper knew that U.S. embassies were targets for Islamic terrorists leading Trump to take out Soleiman with a predator drone Jan. 3, 2020. “The simple fact was that Trump usually exaggerated and often made statements that could not be confirmed, others were outright fabrications. I became ensnared in one of those rhetorical webs on a Sunday morning talk show,” Esper said, blaming Trump for pressuring him on Soleimani.
Esper knows that Soleimani was a threat to U.S. national security, planting limpet mines on freighters in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. Soleimani, the right hand may of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was always looking to retaliate against U.S. interests. So when Trump ordered the predator drone strike Jan. 3, 2020, Esper didn’;t need more evidence that Soleimani was a threat to the U.S. and its allies. “I can’t reveal that I believe it probably would have been four embassies,” Esper wrote in his book, arguing that Trump exaggerated Soleimani’s threat to America. “This was consistent with my understanding of the intelligence, the report I was receiving and precautionary actions we were taking,” Esper wrote, knowing that he didn’t need any more proof of Soleimani’s threat to the U.S. Esper admitted the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and the one in Beirut were all under threat by Iran’s Quds force.
Esper tries in his book to blame Trump for not providing enough credible evidence that Soleiman was plotting to attack four U.S. embassies. “Embassy Baghdad was obviously under threat, and the State had enough concerns about Embassy Beirut that we reinforced that site as well. In addition, as I mentioned earlier, the safety of our embassies in Kuwait and Bahrain concerned me,: Esper said, essentially making the point that Soleimani threatened at least four U.S. embassies. Yet Esper gets mileage publishing such rubbish in anti-Trump book that the former president did not have probable cause to take out Soleimani. “ I didn’t recall any specific mention of four sites in my briefings and reports form the CIA,” Esper wrote, contradicting himself, after identifying four possible U.S. embassy targets. Esper’s book is full of the anti-Trump gossip-and-innuendo craved by the U.S. press.
Esper was fired by Trump Nov. 9, 2020, after he lost the election to Biden. Trump fired Esper because he conspired with other deep state Trump haters to prevent Trump from seeking as second team. Esper said he refused to do anything illegal, unethical or immoral under Trump, yet accepted the Defense Secretary Cabinet job knowing he conspired with other anti-Trump government officials to sabotage Trump’s 2020 campaign. What could be more illegal, unethical or immoral than accepting a Cabinet post to sabotaging Trump’s reelection bid? Espert has plenty of evidence that Soleimani or other Islamic terrorists sought to attack U.S. embassies and consulates, whatever they could get their hands on. Esper’s anti-Trump book was designed to discredit Trump before the 2024 presidential election, something that Democrats fear in the future.
Democrats have a lot to fear heading into the November Midterm elections because of Biden’s abysmal approval ratings. Esper has a field day going after Trump in his new book, not admitting he was part of the deep state attempt to sabotage Trump 2020 reelection bid. Esper has many complaints about Trump but none about Biden whose presidency destroyed relations between the U.S., China and Russia. Under Biden the economy suffered hyperinflation largely do to Biden’s Ukraine War, banning Russian oil sales, creating scarcity and skyrocketing prices in world markets. No, for Esper, he only has contempt, like former FBI Director James Comey, for Trump because he served as a Democrat mole in the Trump White House. Esper had plenty of intel on Iran’s malevolent activities, attacking Saudi Arabia and blowing up peaceful freighters in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.
