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KayF

(1,345 posts)
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 01:44 PM Jan 2020

Trump explains how starting a war with Iran helps re-election chances

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/476631-trump-repeatedly-said-obama-would-start-war-with-iran-to-get-elected

President Trump repeatedly suggested before he was elected to the White House that then-President Obama would start a war with Iran to get reelected.

Trump's remarks have won renewed attention in the wake of the Thursday night airstrike he authorized that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the powerful Iranian military commander who led the elite Quds Force.

The strikes, which come amid high U.S.-Iranian tensions and a month before the Iowa caucuses, took place in an election year for Trump.
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