President Donald Trump recklessly barged into more Middle East violence this week with an abrupt airstrike that killed the leader of Iran’s military’s Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani. Trump has immediately faced wide-ranging criticism because of the immediately palpable, dangerous ramifications of his actions. Iranian authorities have already promised revenge on the United States, and the Trump administration has already set in motion the deployment of thousands more soldiers to the Middle East. As those developments raged, Trump took to Twitter with absolutely outlandish insults for those who dared to sound an alarm after his reckless violent antagonism of Iran. He even retweeted a post claiming that those critics “love terrorists.”
In reality, Trump’s the one who’s actually publicly said that he “fell in love” with a murderous dictator. In that case, it was North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. That didn’t stop his barrage of insults for his opponents who are simply concerned with Trump’s literally scorched earth, dangerous approach.
The post accusing Trump critics of loving terrorists came from far right One America News Network reporter Liz Wheeler, who posted the totally bad faith rant:
‘Soleimani killed 603 American servicemembers. Soleimani maimed thousands more with IEDs. Soleimani approved the attack on the U.S. Embassy. He was plotting to kill more Americans. Yes he deserves to be dead. If you’re lamenting his death, you hate Trump more than a terrorist.’
No one is lamenting his death. In reality, they’re lamenting the additional round of lethal danger for people in the Middle East in the name of a quick win for Trump. The only two options here are not loving terrorists or fully supporting Trump’s reckless, guns-blazing-at-all-times policy.
The president refuses to acknowledge as much, however.
He continued his desperate retweet spree.
He also posted a lengthy quote from a conservative journalist that claimed that newly released emails about the Ukraine bribery scandal don’t reveal anything newly substantive — although in reality, they contain the explicit admission that Trump himself directed the delay in delivering military aid for the country while he was also pressuring them to investigate his opponents.
Christopher Bedford, The Federalist Senior Editor. “There is NOTHING NEW in these Emails at all that’s been discovered. It’s exactly what we knew before, which is that the White House & political figures wanted to cut off aid, Trump wanted to question aid to a number of….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2020
….followed, and then it was withdrawn. The Democrats argument for impeachment has not gotten stronger over the last few weeks. As Senator Josh Hawley just said, he’s going to enter a Motion to Dismiss the Impeachment Trial because it’s never actually been brought to trial.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2020
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