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Posted on 01/09/2020 5:09:57 PM PST by jazusamo
President Trump was headlining his first campaign rally of the election year Thursday in Ohio flush with cash, chafing at a potential Senate impeachment trial and aiming to capitalize on his order to take out Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani after the military leader was said to have orchestrated an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.
Almost immediately, Trump slammed Democrats' nonbinding War Powers Resolution, which they passed earlier in the day in a rebuke to the Soleimani strike -- and suggested Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and California Rep. Adam Schiff, would have tipped off the media about the operation.
"They're saying, 'You should get permission from Congress, you should come in and tell us what you want to do -- you should come in and tell us, so that we can call up the fake news that's back there, and we can leak it,'" Trump said. "Lot of corruption back there."
Trump was appearing before a packed crowd in Toledo shortly after apparently pulling back from the brink of war with Iran earlier this week, and hours after officials announced that Iran likely shot down a civilian airliner carrying dozens of Canadians, apparently by mistake. (Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested the U.S. might bear responsibility, and declined to condemn Iran.)
The campaign event offered Trump an opportunity to spotlight before a friendly crowd his decision to order the deadly drone strike against Soleimani, while keeping the U.S. -- at least for the moment -- out of a wider military conflict.
The president's reelection campaign already has used Facebook ads to highlight Trump’s decision to strike Soleimani, regarded as Iran’s second-most-powerful official.
"We caught a total monster, and we took him out, and that should have happened a long time ago,”...
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Patrick Leahy leaked DOD plans for a series of stealthy satellites, thereby bringing the project to a close and wasting large amounts of money that had already been spent, perhaps in the billions. That’s why he’s called “leaky Leahy.”
Democrats believe they can use any method to get what they want.
Based on that incident, Trump has every right to think they’d leak. There are probably many others as well.
He’s one hundred percent correct. The Demiranians would have been running to any MSM news outlet to spill it.
He took it to the Democrats.
OH is a lock for Trump.
I don’t doubt it for a second. The RATS would have gotten some of our people killed.
Damn straight, Mr. President. And everyone in America realizes that.
Exactly, and Leaky Leahy should have gone to a federal slammer for a long stay over that fiasco.
Not only would they have leaked it, they’d have had a media idiot chorus bleating how brave and moral they were for doing so. Hell hath no fury like a virtue signaler denied.
And then gleefully blamed Trump for the casualties. Cameras at Dover AFB, the works.
You bet your bippy they would have.
Obama prevented the Israelis from taking out Soleimani by leaking the information to his friends in Iran.
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Tucker couldn’t bear to spar his lame interview for the Prez. Got stuck watching him trumpet the war powers crap.
I agree with him.
There’s no doubt they would have sold us out.
“Exactly, and Leaky Leahy should have gone to a federal slammer for a long stay over that fiasco.”
But he didn’t.
So, until the scum in DC EVER stop playing media show games and actually start PROSECUTING those who undermine this country, we are driving 120mph toward banana republic.
Of course they would. Totalitarians of a feather...
HOORAY Chief. Thank you, sir.
Exactly right!
Thank you, President Trump, for NAILING the TRUTH - again!
It seems to me extremely likely. To be fair, Republicans might have, as well. Both sides have loads of attention whores.
Agreed, I’m sure there’s a few Repubs who would have if they had the chance.
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