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spanone

(135,858 posts)
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 10:22 AM Jan 2020

Trump recounts minute-by-minute details of Soleimani strike to donors at Mar-a-Lago

(CNN)President Trump recounted minute-by-minute details of the US strike that killed Iran's top military commander during remarks to high-dollar Republican donors at his South Florida estate, according to audio obtained by CNN.

Trump, speaking at a GOP fundraising dinner Friday evening, offered new details about the strike that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, which exacerbated tensions in the region and led to an ongoing dispute with Congress over his constitutional ability to wage war.

In his speech — held inside the gilded ballroom on his Mar-a-Lago property — he claimed that Soleimani was "saying bad things about our country" before the strike, which led to his decision to authorize his killing.

"How much of this shit do we have to listen to?" Trump asked. "How much are we going to listen to?"


https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/politics/trump-soleimani-details-mar-a-lago/index.html
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brewens

(13,615 posts)
1. Now it's "saying bad things about our country". Setting things up to justify an attack to
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 10:24 AM
Jan 2020

avenge his being called a clown?

Botany

(70,559 posts)
3. Did Trump tell his guests that it was a hit?
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 10:36 AM
Jan 2020

Trump had a Saudi official and the Iraqi P.M. invite Soleimani to Baghdad so he could
help negotiate some kind of way to ease tensions and had him killed @ the airport.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212842415


BTW no doubt that Soleimani was a bad person but we started this shit by bombing
a pro Iranian faction (on Trump's orders) in Iraq.

Botany

(70,559 posts)
5. But he did have time to tell investors, guests @ merde log, and Donny Jr. prior to the bombing ...
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 10:43 AM
Jan 2020

.. the pro Iranian faction in Iraq. Trump wanted to start some shit to take the talk off of impeachment.

Caliman73

(11,742 posts)
10. He was lying again.
Sun Jan 19, 2020, 02:11 AM
Jan 2020

I heard some of the audio from the speech. He was using that same fucking tell he always uses when he is lying. "Sir, they said, Sir, we have the target....Sir, he has two minutes to live..."

That guy is a disgusting piece of shit and so are the people who sat there and listened to him and his hardon for assassinating people.

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