Trump changes story, says he wanted to assassinate Syria's Assad [View all]
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
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