{"id":4194,"date":"2020-01-13T15:06:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T19:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=4194"},"modified":"2020-01-13T15:08:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T19:08:06","slug":"trump-desperately-trying-to-justify-the-criminal-killing-of-the-iranian-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=4194","title":{"rendered":"Trump Desperately Trying to Justify the His Criminal Killing of General Soleimani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4195\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5e1c95d185f54062613b2c95.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5e1c95d185f54062613b2c95.jpg 980w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5e1c95d185f54062613b2c95-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/5e1c95d185f54062613b2c95-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Trump defends killing of Soleimani regardless of \u2018imminent\u2019 threat, says he had a \u2018horrible past\u2019<\/h1>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has lashed out against the \u201cfake news media\u201d and their \u201cDemocrat partners\u201d over criticism of his administration\u2019s decision to assassinate Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.<\/p>\n<p>The president claimed in tweets marred with misspellings that it does not matter if Soleimani presented an imminent threat to the US, something he had said previously to defend the assassination, because of the general\u2019s \u201chorrible past.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners are working hard to determine whether or not the future attack by terrorist Soleimani was \u201cimminent\u201d or not, &amp; was my team in agreement. The answer to both is a strong YES., but it doesn\u2019t really matter because of his horrible past!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1216754098382524422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1216748556561866755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also<\/a>\u00a0accused the media of trying to portray\u00a0<em>\u201cterrorist Soleimani\u201d<\/em>\u00a0as a\u00a0<em>\u201cwonderful guy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though the president has claimed the January 3 assassination of Soleimani was due to the general planning attacks against US forces and embassies, his own defense secretary admitted on Sunday that he\u00a0<em>\u201cdidn\u2019t see\u201d<\/em>\u00a0any specific evidence to suggest those attacks were imminent.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/478078-trump-soleimani-esper-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">ALSO ON RT.COM<\/span><span class=\"read-more-big__title\">Trump\u2019s defense secretary admits he \u2018didn\u2019t see\u2019 evidence about Soleimani planning attacks against US embassies<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also struggled in a recent press conference to define the \u201c<em>imminent<\/em>\u201d threat Soleimani presented to the US. He claimed the US \u201c<em>got it right<\/em>\u201d with their decision to kill the general.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A reporter just asked Pompeo if he can provide specific evidence of the imminent threat that led to Soleimani\u2019s assassination.<\/p>\n<p>And he has absolutely nothing. <\/p>\n<p>These men want to lie us into war, again.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pekTrsSEqR\">pic.twitter.com\/pekTrsSEqR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Read Let This Radicalize You (@JoshuaPHilll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaPHilll\/status\/1214569016569651201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Huge crowds of Iranians took to the streets in the aftermath of the general\u2019s death to protest the killing, and his funeral drew an enormous procession.<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tehran targeted military sites in Iraq housing US forces in retaliation for the assassination. No American casualties were reported in what was believed to be a show of force by the Iranian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/478150-trump-soleimani-iran-killing\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/478150-trump-soleimani-iran-killing\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-4194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194","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=4194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}