President Trump used his first campaign election rally of 2020 to argue that he served up “American justice' by ordering a drone strike to take out Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani, while jeering Democratic leaders for questioning his decision to carry out the attack without first consulting Congress.
, Trump said he had no plans to take further military action against Iran and would instead enact more sanctions against the Islamic Republic., has also opened a new front in the 2020 presidential campaign for Trump, who in 2016 campaigned on a promise to end American involvement in “endless wars.
Trump also sought to compare his response to the recent attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad to the 2012 attack on U.S. government facility in Benghazi. A U.S. ambassador to Libya, a foreign service officer and two CIA contractors were killed in the Benghazi attack, which led to a two-year Republican-led investigation into then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was not found to have committed wrongdoing.
“I made a deal. I saved a country, and I just heard that the head of that country is now getting the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the country,” Trump said. “I said, ‘What?’ Did I have something to do with it? Yeah. But, you know, that’s the way it is. As long as we know, it’s all that matters.” In December, an AP-NORC poll showed Trump’s approval rating at 40%. There have not been more recent polls to gauge support for the president in the wake of the targeted killing of Suleimani, though opinions of Trump have changed little over the course of his presidency.
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