Trump changes story, says he wanted to assassinate Syria's Assad
Source: POLITICO
Trump's comments are similar to a report in journalist Bob Woodward's 2018 book "Fear."
09/15/2020 10:16 AM EDT
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I would have rather taken him out. I had him all set. Mattis didn't want to do it," Trump said in an interview with Fox & Friends, referring to then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. "Mattis was against most of that stuff."
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"Let's [expletive] kill him! Let's go in. Let's kill the [expletive] lot of them," Trump is said to have told Mattis.
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Following the book's publication, Trump denied the account, dismissing the book as "fiction" and telling journalists that assassinating Assad "was never contemplated, nor would it be contemplated."
In the Tuesday interview, Trump personally attacked Mattis as "highly overrated" and "a bad leader," saying "he was terrible to me, he was a terrible general."..........................................
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/15/trump-assassinate-syria-assad-415093
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Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures while speaking to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their talks in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. | Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP
C_U_L8R
(44,889 posts)He seems to enjoy it
JI7
(89,172 posts)likely put a stop to him doing anything to Assad.
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)with audio from Woodward's recent call: '...just don't mock him'
Trump is old chicken shit.
Cirque du So-What
(25,808 posts)No way in hell would pooty-poot have consented to assassinating Assad, another of his strategic puppets.
no_hypocrisy
(45,769 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,874 posts)Im sure Trump felt like the big man then. In his warped mind, it was just as important as Obama taking out bin Laden.
TomCADem
(17,378 posts)Who needs meds when instability is Trump's baseline state of being.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/27/politics/donald-trump-isis-syria-russia-60-minutes/index.html
While most of his fellow Republican presidential hopefuls are calling for a bigger military effort to destroy the group, Trump said the U.S. should reduce its already small footprint in Syria. And in Iraq, Trump said he would be willing to send round forces to fight the radical militant group.
"Now let me just say this: ISIS in Syria, (Syrian President Bashar el) Assad in Syria, Assad and ISIS are mortal enemies. We go in to fight ISIS. Why aren't we letting ISIS go and fight Assad and then we pick up the remnants?" Trump said in a "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday on CBS.
Alternatively, the GOP front-runner said the U.S. should let Russia take the lead in battling ISIS in Syria, where the Russian government is allied with the Assad regime. "Russia wants to get rid of ISIS. We want to get rid of ISIS. Maybe let Russia do it. Let them get rid of ISIS. What the hell do we care?" Trump said.
George II
(67,782 posts)By the way, does he realize that assassinating the leader of a country we're NOT at war with violates American policy?
Grins
(7,128 posts)More like Putin didn't want Trump to do it.
OnlinePoker
(5,702 posts)Just to clarify, I'm against assassination of heads of state no matter how reprehensible they are.