{"id":3219,"date":"2020-01-03T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2020-01-03T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:40:20","slug":"trump-outright-lies-about-iranian-major-general-in-the-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-qasem-soleimani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=3219","title":{"rendered":"Trump Outright Lies About Iranian Major General in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qasem Soleimani"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Trump Jabs Dems Over Iran Reaction, Rages That &#8216;Killer&#8217; Soleimani &#8220;Should Have Been Taken Out Years Ago!&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Update (0900ET)<\/strong><\/u>: President Trump has expanded his comments this morning, switching focus to Soleimani&#8217;s terrible deeds&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended period of time, and\u00a0<strong>was plotting to kill many more&#8230; but got caught!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was directly and indirectly\u00a0<strong><em>responsible for the death of millions of people<\/em><\/strong>, including the recent large number of PROTESTERS killed in Iran itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While Iran will never be able to properly admit it, Soleimani was both hated and feared within the country.<\/strong>\u00a0They are not nearly as saddened as the leaders will let the outside world believe.\u00a0<strong>He should have been taken out many years ago!<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>Having tweeted a patriotic US flag last night following the actions to assassinate Soleimani&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VXeKiVzpTf\">pic.twitter.com\/VXeKiVzpTf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1212924762827046918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Trump&#8217;s first direct tweet (he has retweeted numerous comments from others) since the attack is a clear jab at the Democrats over their actions (or lack of them) on Iran&#8217;s death-dealers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/trump-jabs-dems-10-word-tweet-iran-escalation\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/trump-jabs-dems-10-word-tweet-iran-escalation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Jabs Dems Over Iran Reaction, Rages That &#8216;Killer&#8217; Soleimani &#8220;Should Have Been Taken Out Years Ago!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}