Trump Lied about Iran Missile Strike, page-56

Trump also reportedly lied about the IMMINENT THREAT part.

As per usual, he shot his mouth off at his Mar-a-Lago fund raising event the other night.

Key points.

1. Trump doesn't even know who he killed. He says he killed the head of Hezbollah. He didn't. The other key guy Trump actually murdered was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis the deputy head of an Iraqi PMUs, The PMUs are Iran supported but also have their status defined within Iraq's Constitution. No mention of the 5 others killed. I've been bleating about potentially catastrophic impact of Trump killing major Iraqi figures within Iraq.

2 Trump admits to a war crime. The military men killed were not non-state-actors. They were uniformed soldiers and so in the absence of an imminent threat a war crime was committed. There is no argument about this. The US is led by an admitted war criminal.

3. In the face of setting off explosions at international airports, the US and its allies are no longer in a position to preach about human rights or terrorism to a wide range of bad actors in positions of global power. Trumpists won't care about this but it opens the flood gates.



As reported all over the place

"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?”

Trump did not describe an “imminent threat” that led to his decision to kill Soleimani, the justification used by administration officials in the aftermath of the attack.

Instead, he described Soleimani as a “noted terrorist” who “was down on our list” and “was supposed to be in his country” before traveling to other nations in the region.

Trump described in detail watching remotely as Soleimani arrived at Baghdad International Airport, where he was met by Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the head of Kata’ib Hezbollah.

Trump claimed erroneously that Soleimani was meeting “the head of Hezbollah” (the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group is separate from group led by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis).

And he claimed the strike he authorized took out “two for the price of one.”

He went on to recount listening to military officials as they watched the strike from “cameras that are miles in the sky.”

“They’re together sir,” Trump recalled the military officials saying. “Sir, they have two minutes and 11 seconds. No emotion. ‘2 minutes and 11 seconds to live, sir. They’re in the car, they’re in an armored vehicle. Sir, they have approximately one minute to live, sir. 30 seconds. 10, 9, 8 …’ “

“Then all of a sudden, boom,” he went on. “‘They’re gone, sir. Cutting off.’ “

“I said, where is this guy?” Trump continued. “That was the last I heard from him.” "



As an aside Trump also declared "who cares about the budget" at this event. Trumpists foolishly believe that piling on more debt will lead to their everlasting prosperity. The reverse is actually the case.

Actual conservatives believe in stuff like small government, governments not telling people how to live, frugal budgets, free trade and personal resilience. Trump is a fascist.

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