- President Donald Trump recounted the minutes leading up to the deadly US strike on top Iranian leader Qassem Soleimani during remarks to GOP donors at his Florida resort on Friday night, according to CNN.
- The president recalled how US military officials counted down the seconds leading up to the strike, which also killed a top Iraqi militant leader and several others, outside the Baghdad International airport.
- Trump remarked that he assassinated “two for the price of one” and noted that the strike, which dramatically escalated tensions between the US and Iran, “shook up the world.”
President Donald Trump recounted the minutes leading up to the deadly US strike on top Iranian leader Qassem Soleimani during remarks to Republican donors at his Florida resort on Friday night, according to an audio recording obtained by CNN.
Trump told the crowd at a GOP fundraising event at Mar-a-Lago that Soleimani, Iran’s top military general and the second-most powerful leader in the country, was “saying bad things about our country” before the strike.
“How much of this shit do we have to listen to?” Trump said, according to CNN. “How much are we going to listen to?”
The president recalled how US military officials counted down the seconds leading up to the strike, which also killed a top Iraqi militant leader and several others, outside the Baghdad International airport.
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