Trump ‘considers plan to send hit squads to Mexico to kill cartel leaders’

Former president wants to draw up ‘kill list of drug lords’

Donald Trump's plan for hit squads would not rely on the Mexican government’s consent.

Kelly Rissman
© UK Independent

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.