President Trump offered new details about the drone strike that killed Iran’s top military commander Qassem Soleimani.
Trump told donors at a fundraising dinner at his Florida resort on Friday that Soleimani was “saying bad things about our country” before the strike, according to a recording obtained by CNN.
“How much of this shit do we have to listen to?” Trump asked. “How much are we going to listen to?”
Trump also described watching as Soleimani was targeted near the airport in Baghdad earlier this month with a MQ-9 Reaper drone.
“They said, ‘Sir,’ and this is from cameras that are miles in the sky, ‘They’re together, sir. Sir, they have 2 minutes and 11 seconds.’ No bullshit. ‘They have 2 minutes and 11 seconds to live, sir. They’re in the car. They’re in an armored vehicle going. Sir, they have approximately one minute to live, sir. Thirty seconds, 10, 9, 8.’
“Then, all of a sudden, boom. ‘They’re gone, sir. Cutting off.’”
“I said, where is this guy,” Trump continued. “That was the last I heard from them.”
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