12 minutes ago“Trump wanted Assad killed, but his request was ignored”
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Besides presenting US President Donald Trump as an ignorant leader to the risk of global affairs, a new book also speaks of how President Trump had called for the murder of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. According to the book, Trump conveys to Defence Secretary Jim Mattis that he wanted to [...]
According to the book, Telegraphy reports, Trump told Defence Secretary Jim Mattis that he wanted to kill Assad after the Syrian president launched a chemical attack on civilians in April 2017.
Let's kill him! Let's get in. Let's kill a lot of them”, Trump said, according to book author Bob Woodward.
And as stated further, Mattis had replied to Trump that he would take care of this “, but instead developed a plan for a limited air attack that did not threaten Assad personally.
The passages from the book written by famous reporter Bob Woodward were published by “Washington Post”.
New address book Trump at the White House” is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with first-hand actors in Mr Trump's now 20-month presidency.
However, the White House issued a statement Tuesday saying: “This book is nothing more than fabricated stories, many of the former disgruntled employees, to make the president look bad”.
