On Tuesday, speaking to reporters at the White House, President Trump bluntly addressed those who were complaining abut the airstrike he ordered that killed arch-terrorist Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Trump said simply, “Soleimani has been called a monster. And he was a monster. And he’s no longer a monster. He’s dead.” Trump added, “He was traveling with the head of Hezbollah; they weren’t there to discuss a vacation; they weren’t there to go to a nice resort somewhere in Baghdad; they were there to discuss bad business, and we saved a lot of lives by terminating his life.”
Trump, who was accompanied by the prime minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, continued by noting the Democratic presidential candidates who had criticized the action, saying, “And that’s a good thing for a lot of countries. And he was planning a very big attack and a very bad attack for us and other people. And we stopped him. And I don’t think anybody can complain about it. I don’t hear too many people other than politicians who are trying to win the presidency; those are the ones that are complaining but I don’t hear anybody else complaining.”
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