In an interview with Fox & Friends Tuesday morning, President Trump claimed he wanted to assassinate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but was talked out of it by former Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
“I would have rather taken him out. I had him all set. Mattis didn’t want to do it,” Trump said. The president’s comments reflect the reporting from Bob Woodward, whose book “Fear” claimed Trump wanted to assassinate Assad in April 2017 after an alleged chemical attack in Khan Shaykun, Syria.
Instead of the assassination, the US fired 59 cruise missiles at Syrian government targets. A similar incident occurred in April 2018, after an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria, and the US, UK, and France launched attacks on multiple Syrian government sites.
After Woodward’s book was published in 2018, President Trump said that the idea “was never even discussed.” The book also described the president’s contentious relationship with Mattis, who Trump called a “highly overrated general” in Tuesday’s interview.
The incident in 2017 was not the last time Trump and Mattis clashed over Syria. Mattis resigned in December 2018. Trump’s plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Syria drove Mattis to step down, although US troops are still in those countries today.
I’m waiting for the MSM to call him weak for NOT taking out Assad. I’m also waiting for Trump’s head to explode from having so much bullshit stored in one place.
wars, He is full of shi# but Biden, demoncrats are worse,,Trump 2020 and I hope he has learned a few lessons…:)
There ya go. Saying Trump is full of shit and then campaigning for him. They suck equally.
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Assad the only man protecting Syrian Christians . And Trump almost assassinated this man . Because of false flag gas attack . This shows it is pretty difficult for a president to make good decisions when he is not in possession of truthful honest information .
Anything daddy bibi wants,daddy bibi gets. The moron in the White House just can’t seem to jump high enough.Too fat on zionist fodder
And when he can’t wait for such information. He did it within a day or two of the false flag attack. He actually did assassinate someone by drone early this year, remember? Along with twenty other innocent people around the man. It’s why Iraq asked you to leave, but you didn’t so actually you’re occupying that nation for the umpteenth time.
Zarhan, live by the sword, die by the sword, Solemani got his, I will not cry for him. Prez. had better watch out about being eager to kill foreign leaders, I would bet many of his own countrymen want the same for him, and almost all DC Ghouls do…………….Trump 2020, even though he is an AZZ Hole, Biden is worse! 🙂
By the way if there is one thing that should never ever be put in one sentence together, it’s Trump and honesty. You have heard how he knowingly lied to your faces about Covid right?
false
trump actually told the truth….in civilized European nations there r no masks, covid facism
chloroquine, etc is successfully employed as a treatment in Asia, S Amerika, Europe
Right, Trump was just “downplaying” the virus as he told Woodward he was doing. Kind of like downplaying the dangers of traffic to your children by telling them to go play in the middle of a busy intersection.
wars, “Come on Man, gimme a break”!! Biden quote.
Trump did all he could to fight the CCP manufactured virus. Go back and hit that bong my friend, u surely do not think for yourself. 🙂
Trump told Woodward he BELIEVED the virus to be deadly and then he held rallies. I wasn’t giving my personal opinion about the virus but you’re too damn dense to figure that out.
wars,,It is deadly, to old people in bad health, just as is the flu!! Trump rallies bad,,demoncrat,,protest” and violent hateful riots, good,,,I know your agenda wars, and it is a deadly one.
You sound like you’re on Fox and Friends. Let me try to explain it to you. When Trump was calling the virus a hoax or was recommending unproven drugs or was encouraging people to attend HIS rallies we probably all assumed that was because Trump thought the virus was indeed a hoax. And a lot of people, including myself, didn’t disagree with him. He could have been an adult and a calming influence but he’s too much of an a$$hole to do that but nothing he did or said could be construed as criminal. So on Feb. 7th when he told Woodward the virus was DEADLY that changed everything. And the fact that Trump couldn’t scream “FAKE NEWS” because he had been recorded as saying such leads one to believe that Trump, himself, must have actually believed it to be so. And when he said he was downplaying the virus to avoid a panic that is pretty much proof that he indeed thought it was DEADLY. So the context of him calling it a hoax or inviting HIS own supporters to gather is completely different if he had thought it was just a hoax. But you go ahead and use Fox and Friends talking points to make your case because it fits your narrative.
wars,,,It is clear he wanted to calm the situation and not cause a panic,,just like any leader in that position should do,,Prez, putz his foot up his azz often, but still far better than PEDO, SENILE, LYING, CORRUPT, PLAGERIZING,,Hidin-Biden.. Trump 2020! HoRaHH..
Hmmm … how many 13-year-olds has Biden been sued for raping?
Thomas, what are you implying??? Biden is accused by one of his staff of going into her panties and digital penetrating her. For all the other PEDO incidents,,just watch him on Y-Tube!! “Come on man,gimmee a break” Biden quote. 🙂 I know Prez. like’s mature Women, likes sex, much like JFK in that way,,and also like billions of men around the world, and it may come as a shock to you,,but Women like it too..:)
Jay, I’m not implying anything. Trump was sued for allegedly fucking a 13-year-old delivered to him by Jeffrey Epstein. That’s just a fact.
If Trump likes mature women so much, why does he always marry them young then discard them for new young models when they start aging?
The leading candidate for president is a creepy, handsy, corrupt, senile septuagenarian. I don’t even have to check whether Trump or Biden is ahead in the polls to know that, because in those specific respects they’re like peas in a pod.
On March 16th, when the US had only 251 Covid deaths, Trump touted hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and zinc as a preventative.
If ***rather than Trump*** a respected medical authority had recommended HCQ + zinc as a preventive …
— per Trump so early on, and which has now been established —
… half of the current 200,000 US deaths could have been prevented (and god knows how many more going forward). But no such luck, as TDS insanity ruled the day. So half the final tally of dead Americans must be chalked up to Trump-hate and Trump-haters. A bitter pill which they will deny all the way to their graves.
Interesting times.
There is a significant difference between Trump saying he thought that the virus was a hoax and encouraging people to gather at his rallies because that is what he believed as compared to him believing it was indeed deadly and still saying it was a hoax and still encouraging people to gather at his rallies. I really wasn’t trying to make any other point.
The virus was made either in Ft. Detrick or Israel and deployed by order of Pompeo or the Mossad. Blaming China is just part of the plan, cementing in the mind of the readily gulled, the notion of Chinese responsibility, preempting the truth. Later, after a full analysis of the genome of the virus reveals its man-made origin, no one will take note of the false attribution, and the anti-China meme will endure.
Mission accomplished. (Almost. The horrific consequences inflicted on the American people by its own Deep State, or Israel, will remain as a festering and deeply toxic “conspiracy theory”. In any event, China beat back the attack and the empire is dying, so no one will have time to fret much over a bunch of dead Boomers.)
Tucker Carlson had a Deep State, “Democracy for Hong Kong!” shill on last night, amplifying the “China did it!” meme. The psyop continues.
Yomama,,You should show more respect to your Mother :(. Do you really believe what you just wrote…I mean REALLY, WTF! LOL. 🙂
Decide for yourself:
This is short and to the point.
Was Coronavirus a Biowarfare Attack Against China?
OLDMICROBIOLOGIST • MARCH 13, 2020
https://www.unz.com/article/was-the-2020-wuhan-coronavirus-an-engineered-biological-attack-on-china-by-america-for-geopolitical-advantage/
This, too.
American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?
RON UNZ • APRIL 21, 2020
https://www.unz.com/article/was-coronavirus-a-biowarfare-attack-against-china/
This is a very long article, so do a “ctrl f” search for “Back in January”. The first hit begins the relevant material.
No, COVID is actually a scam. Germany seems to be waking up to this faster actually, we have lots of rallies against the masks etc.
If you research the “COVID deaths” in the US (as well as the purported infections), I’m pretty sure you will find the same misreporting as around here. Here they sell us every positive PCR test result as an infection.
Not my point.
It’s a scam? Is the whole world in on the scam too?
I think the overreaction brought on the scams. The next billionaire has got to be a mask maker.
Can’t disagree with you there. Lots of people getting rich on this.
Zarhan, you are mistaken, he did all he could, including shutting the economy down, etc.,,he just has dysentery of the mouth much too often. 🙂
Or a moral compass.
Good point…but he surrounds himself with neo cons.
the fascist democrats admired trump when US send missiles to sand dunes and declared “victory”,,,backward immoral people
trump isn’t fascist, racist enough—the only president that has not attacked another nation since WWII
I think you’re getting “starting no new wars” mixed up with “not attacked another nation since WW2”. I think he dropped a few bombs on Afghanistan to name one. And the MOAB at that.
wars,,backer of the sweet Taliban,,why am I not surprised? 🙂
You are an idiot Jay if that is what you took from my comment.
wars, wanna walk it back…?,,,edit your post?,,,plain as day what you meant!
Really? The guy said Trump never attacked another nation and I pointed out he attacked Afghanistan and somehow that makes me a Taliban sympathizer? I guess I’ll have to stand by my comment. You are an idiot.
Wars,,what is with the hate for me??,,I still love Ya Bro’. 🙂
I can’t fathom the connection to the Taliban. I guess I should have said the missile attacks on Syria. And I call my real life brother an idiot too so don’t be offended. I wave at people by giving them the finger. I’m an asshole.
wars, I know you are a good Bro’, 🙂 When the chips are down, I got your back!
America First Don, not Israel.
So Donald, do you really want to legitimize assassinating leaders of countries that you don’t like? As a president would think you would not favor setting that precedent. Syria was peaceful country for decades until some guy named Yinon decided Syria was to be part of “Greater Israel”.
arn,,Obama, McCain, hillary, and the neo-cons, including linsay Boi’ wanted to outright invade Syria,,,Prez. T. never did, wanted out.
I know, however, no American president should say what he said. They wanted the Libya treatment in Syria. Russia said no way and ISIS was born. It was hilarious when Obama pretended to fight ISIS and Russia volunteered to help and heroically wiped them out including “moderate” ISIS.
I recognize that there have been no new wars under Trump. Not even wars with proxy terrorist armies. He has tried to withdraw from the CIA’s golden goose heroine business in Afghanistan but wasn’t able to. Maybe he could if he were really in charge. I am in favor of putting him “really in charge” but I wish he didn’t talk like Lucky Luciano.
Other than two missile attacks based on nonsense. Wanted to assassinate Assad and didn’t want to give the Russians a heads up before the missile attack.
“Some American military and intelligence officials were especially distressed by the president’s determination to ignore the evidence. “None of this makes any sense,” one officer told colleagues upon learning of the decision to bomb. “We KNOW that there was no chemical attack … the Russians are furious. Claiming we have the real intel and know the truth … I guess it didn’t matter whether we elected Clinton or Trump.“
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905578/Trump-s-Red-Line.html
wars, That was a very stupid move but he was enthralled by the corrupt and egg sucking Generals,,I hope he has learned that they are all GHOULS!
But read that article. Those ass kissing generals had to talk him down on that one.
The point of my original post.
If he want to assassinate the leaders of other countries, then he wouldn’t mind being assassinated himself…!
Ritter nails it:
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/500882-military-messiah-syndrome-trump-woodward-rage/
Woodward is a fraud, most if not all top military are war mongering frauds!
War/mic pays very well; someone should do a piece on the obscene net worth retired military are gathering while feeding at the trough, revolving door does not quite get it.