Trump tells fundraisers how his murders went down at 5:22.
Trump’s assassination justification: Soleimani was ‘saying bad things’:
Trump tells GOP donors that Soleimani was ‘saying bad things’ before strike
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From: Huffington Post
Trump Tied Soleimani Hit To Support From GOP Hawks Ahead Of Impeachment Trial: Reports
New motivation emerges after contradictory Trump administration accounts of “imminent” threats justifying airstrike assassination.
The Times reported Saturday that as Trump discussed the Soleimani strike at Mar-a-Lago, he told some associates that he wanted to safeguard the support of Senate GOP hawks in the upcoming impeachment trial. He specifically named Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, according to the Times.
Trump also tipped off another hawk, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), about the attack when Graham visited Mar-a-Lago, the senator himself revealed. Yet Trump did not warn other congressional leaders, nor European allies or Persian Gulf partners, noted the Times.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that after the attack, Trump told associates that he was under pressure to deal with Soleimani from GOP senators he considered important in his impeachment trial, according to sources.
The new information comes amid continued fallout from Congress about a lack of transparency from the Trump administration concerning the justification for killing Soleimani, which would determine if the strike was legal. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) bashed the sketchy Senate briefing on the attack Wednesday as “insulting and demeaning.”
World Affairs Brief, January 17, 2020 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
Emphasis mostly mine
OFFICIALS DESPERATE TO JUSTIFY FALSE INTEL FED TO TRUMP
In the aftermath of the Soleimani assassination strike at the Baghdad airport last week, US officials hit all the mainstream media and television sites in an attempt to shore up the “imminent threat” narrative they used to justify the strike against Iran’s top general. Trump bragged before a rally that he had just killed the #1 terrorist in the world—#1, he kept repeating. What an idiot! And stupid supporters blindly cheered him on. Confusion reigned as it became known that Soleimani had been presented as a target to focus on months ago in a presentation by John Bolton to president Trump, which blew the “sudden threat” claim out the window. So they inflated the threat to claim that Iran not only wanted to “blow up” the huge Deep State embassy in the Green Zone of Baghdad but three other embassies as well—without naming them. Defense Secretary Esper was caught off guard with that claim and said he hadn’t seen any intel to that effect, further throwing the administration’s story into disarray. Then he later came back to reinforce the official story. Anyone watching all this would think the agencies were making things up on the fly. Naturally, they were overjoyed when Iran had to admit they shot down a Ukrainian airliner that was taking off from Tehran. In their criticism, the US government never mentions that we shot down an Iranian airliner in 1988 killing all aboard.
Trump made the admission during a Fox News interview that the Saudis had already deposited a billion dollars in US accounts to pay for keeping the large numbers of US troops in their country (probably to protect the regime from Iran in case of war). Since when is it constitutional for the Commander in Chief to sell US military services abroad and put our troops at risk for a dictatorial regime?
Judge Andrew Napolitano: US killing of Soleimani was odd, out of place, untimely and unlawful
Published
The general’s assassination was odd, out of place, untimely and unlawful. Odd, because the general’s folks had worked with our intelligence folks in Iraq against ISIS. Out of place, because the Iranian general was welcomed by the Iraqi government and was not engaged in any violence or war crimes at the time he was killed. Untimely, because whatever he may have been planning to do was not an imminent attack on the U.S. or on Americans. We know this because Trump administration officials revealed that the president gave the kill order seven months ago, in June 2019. How imminent could an attack have been in June if it had not occurred by January?
And unlawful, because we are not at war with Iran, and political assassinations have been prohibited by still valid executive orders signed by Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan. The U.S. Constitution limits the federal government’s lawful power to kill to foreign troops in wartime and after due process, neither of which abides here. Moreover, international treaties to which the U.S. is party, as well as the laws of war to which the U.S. subscribes, prohibit preemptive killings except when the target is just about — “certainty” is the standard — to strike. …
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump had no legal right to order killing of Soleimani
Published
President Trump ordered the U.S. military to invade a then-friendly country without the knowledge or consent of its government and assassinate a visiting foreign government official. The victim was the head of Iran’s military and intelligence. The formerly friendly country is Iraq.
From: ChuckBaldwinLive.com
Trump’s Unholy War
Published: Thursday, January 9, 2020
Just as many of us have been warning, Donald Trump is joining his fellow PNAC puppets G.W. Bush and Barack Obama in taking the United States into yet another quagmire of a Middle Eastern war for the benefit of the military industrial complex—and Israel, of course.
Here is General Wesley Clark exposing the U.S. (PNAC) plan to topple the governments in seven Middle Eastern and North African countries back in 2007.
Cynthia McKinney
@POTUS @realDonaldTrump threatens Iraq — will cut it off from its own oil money at the US NY Federal Reserve–if Iraq persists in expelling US troops. (Why would ANY country put its funds in the US and especially at the Federal Reserve???)
The “love of money” too often drives this man — instead of doing what’s right no matter what.
The song at the end is by Jonathan Mann.
Bow bow bow
Curtsey for the king
He’ll give you a medal
For the weapons that you bring
He’s got more money than you
Bend over, kiss his ring
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziE78FtOJo
Jake Morphonios gives the background: (vid) Jake: Trump Sells Out U.S. Troops As Guns for Hire to Saudi Arabia
Bow bow bow
Curtsey for the king
He’ll give you a medal
For the weapons that you bring
He’s got more money than you
Bend over, kiss his ring
Iraqi prime minister says Qassem Soleimani was in Iraq to ‘discuss de-escalating tensions between Iran and Saudis’ when he was killed – and claims Trump had asked for help mediating talks after embassy attack
Message by Dr. Chuck Baldwin on Jan. 12, 2020
1:15:10 Trump abandoning the 2nd Amendment
Trump planned and assassinated the man most responsible for defeating ISIS, whom the CIA and Mossad created. ISIS has even thanked Trump. “And now, Mr. Trump, you’ve given a new generation of Arabs a reason to hate the United States.”
Minute-1:19:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOpS9Cqyeew
What does this say about the soul of America?
Douglas MacArthur warned:
“History fails to record a single precedent in which NATIONS SUBJECT TO MORAL DECAY have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a SPIRITUAL AWAKENING to overcome the moral lapse, OR a PROGRESSIVE DETERIORATION leading to ultimate national disaster.”
Joel Skousen also stated some of this in Friday’s World Affairs Brief.
At this point, it appears Trump has no moral compass, or he’s blackmailed. Trump has gone rogue, and is ramping up the hatred towards America.
Trump has again fully admitted he’s using American troops to take Syria’s oil, which is illegal and immoral.
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“Trump disgraces our military by using our men & women in uniform as mercenaries serving the interests of multinational corps (e.g. Exxon) & foreign countries (e.g. Saudis). We must stand side by side—no matter our political party—to end this travesty #NoWarWithIran #StandWithTulsi
Trump admits he “left troops in Syria to take the oil,” and then says “we have the oil.” If this isn’t reverse-Christianity, what is?
We were unsuccessful in regime changing Syria, the last country that needed to be destabilized before taking out Iran for the Greater Israel Project, so then Trump figures we’ll just take the oil, which the Bible calls stealing.
Someone recently said Trump has broken all of the 10 commandments now, with his recent assassinations in Iraq (though he’s murdered others before in his military campaigns). Here he’s breaking “Thou shalt not steal,” and tells us about it on the war channel, Fox News.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5tq-Y4tlug
I can’t verify this quote, but besides Sen. Tom Cotton, Lindsey Graham appears to be the other senator:
[Facebook, 1/11/20] “Trump has reportedly now confessed that he ordered the assassination of General Soleimani in exchange for the votes of war-mongering Senators Graham and Cotton in his impeachment trial.” Nicholas Davies
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Trump reportedly told associates he killed Qassem Soleimani because he was under pressure from GOP senators before his impeachment trial
THE ANGER OF IRAQIS AGAINST THE US
The US Deep State may not need to concoct another false flag attack if anti-US militias in Iraq decide to take revenge for Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed along with Soleimani. Qais al-Khazali, a commander of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Iraq, vowed to exact revenge for the killing of their leader saying,
“The first Iranian response to the assassination of the martyr leader Soleimani took place,” he tweeted. “Now is the time for the initial Iraqi response to the assassination of the martyr leader Muhandis.”
Muhandis was particularly disliked by the Deep State because he documented more than anyone else in Iraq the fact that the US refused to help them eliminate ISIS once it overran the US-trained Iraqi army in Mosul. In fact the Iraqi army ran away like rabbits and left all their heavy armor and guns behind for ISIS to capture. He points out that it was Iran that provided them the weapons and ammunition to defeat ISIS—thus Soleimani was not supporting terror, but fighting against it.
We’re still sitting ducks, sadly. But at least something has now officially passed. The media is still not covering this, our #1 threat. They’re even ignoring the passing of this bill.
Related:
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EMP Law: Inside the latest defense authorization bill signed by President Trump on Dec. 20, it mandates that the federal government must protect the nation from the danger of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks whether from nuclear weapons or solar flares.
The law’s language gives legal authority to Mr. Trump’s March 2019 executive order directing the government to harden critical infrastructure against an EMP strike.
But will it actually get protected? I don’t think so. In fact, the grid is composed of mostly private companies and the government has no authority to take over their property or mandate changes. So the government will create a “network of systems to alert the public and provide a warning system to deal with EMP strikes and communicate with the public should electric systems be disrupted.” Federal agencies will have until June to draw up specific plans and procedures for responding to EMP attacks and major geomagnetic disturbances. That is a pipe dream. No government could control the chaos of 325 million people without electricity for months.
WITH SULEIMANI ASSASSINATION, TRUMP IS DOING THE BIDDING OF WASHINGTON’S MOST VILE CABAL
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Assassination has been a central component of U.S. policy for many decades, though it has been whitewashed and normalized throughout history, most recently with Obama’s favored term, “targeted killings.” The U.S. Congress has intentionally never legislated the issue of assassination. Lawmakers have avoided even defining the word “assassination.” While every president since Gerald Ford has upheld an executive order banning assassinations by U.S. personnel, they have each carried out assassinations with little to no congressional outcry.
In 1976, following Church Committee recommendations regarding allegations of assassination plots carried out by U.S. intelligence agencies, Ford signed an executive order banning “political assassination.” Jimmy Carter subsequently issued a new order strengthening the prohibition by dropping the word “political” and extending it to include persons “employed by or acting on behalf of the United States.” In 1981, Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12333, which remains in effect today. The language seems clear enough: “No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.”
Our Patriot anti-missiles did not stop Iran’s missiles recently in Saudi Arabia and now in Iraq.
Pompeo lied to Americans about Soleimani’s reason for being in Iraq: the Saudi-Iranian peace proposal for Yemen.
I commented:
Soleimani helping defend Iraq from our illegal regime-change invasion is NOT terrorism. None of our men would have been killed had we not immorally invaded. Trump even admitted the Iraq war was a mistake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzpBygnrtMQ
It was supposed to start at 11am.
Did Trump postpone his address this morning until the sun was in position to back-illuminate him as he walked onto the stage?
Screenshot from minute-25:05
This reminds me of Hitler’s foolish decision to invade Poland, which started WWII.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKNyW4L_Xvc
Someone asked: “what should Trump do?” Iran has just bombed two bases in Iraq in retaliation for Trump’s assassination of Soleimani. No Americans were killed.
If Trump were a real Christian, he’d admit he was wrong, ask forgiveness, stop the sanctions (also an act of war), and at least make the effort to try to negotiate.
Thankfully, Tucker Carlson is so far dissenting from Fox News’ warmongering push, pointing to all of the times we’ve been lied to in the past.
The most accurate strategic analyst I know of explains the Trump/Iran situation.
[Note, this is on Alex’s show, which I can no longer recommend except rarely, like this special segment.]
23:25 “It’s very interesting that Fox News is the most pro-war network out there in terms of Iran. They really are beating up on the conservatives with this propaganda about Iran.”
From: TruthTellers.org
National Prayer Network
TAKE ACTION AGAINST TRUMP’S “END OF FREE SPEECH” DECREE!!!
17 December, 2019 By Rev. Ted Pike
President Trump’s recent Executive Order IS THE TEXT of the Jewish ADL’s “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, S852, recently denied US Senate Committee consideration. See the Senate Bill here:, and See the Executive Order here: S852 can make a “hate criminal” of any student, teacher, administrator or even employee of U.S. Public Education who strongly criticizes Israel. It says they can be arrested for the crime of “anti-Semitism” and “intimidation” of Jewish students on campus. They then can be punished under the harsh “anti- discrimination” rules of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.