President Donald Trump offered chilling details to GOP donors about the airstrike assassination of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 2 — and a new reason for the hit: He was saying “bad things” about America. “He was saying bad things about our country, like ‘we’re going to attack, we’re going to kill your people,’” Trump said, according to the Post. The president didn’t mention any “imminent attack” planned by the military commander. Trump had previously justified the assassination by saying that Soleimani was “probably” planning to attack four American embassies. Since the Soleimani hit, the Trump administration has been criticized for a lack of transparency and for failing to provide adequate substantiation of Trump’s claim that Soleimani posed an imminent threat.

Source: Huffington Post January 19, 2020 01:07 UTC