Reports: Trump Admin Tried To Assassinate Another Top Iranian Commander

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The Trump administration tried to kill another top Iranian commander on the same day of the fatal strike on Qasem Soleimani, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1283931
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So who’s playing Assassin’s Creed in Trumplania?

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There are a group of people in and around Washington that assassinations and bombings work in a way that Viagra never would.

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My question is for SoS Mike “The Tick”: Mike–when MBS tells you what to do does he tell you to your lying swollen face or does he have Jared tell you?

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Barron and Eric

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The Trump Organization, aka Assassination, Inc.

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Considering that this country is officially back in the state actors assassination business, I’m really looking forward to ‘1600’ and ‘Foggy Bottom’s’ responses, when it’s the Iranians turn.

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Alex I’d like to buy a vowel and solve the puzzle:
What is Asses, Inc.

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Love how he has to flank himself with two real military leaders as if their gravitas will somehow be projected onto him. History is not going to be kind to the guy on Trump’s left, as he is trotted out for all of the worst press conferences ever and everything he ever worked for will be lost to the sands of time and he will forever be known as a Trump toadie.

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Well Trump consoling a family member who was assassinated will get what the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, “Well they knew what they signed up for.”

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If this goes where you are implying then the first order of business is that Trump is grounded at the WH. No Travel, no golf, no friends over, and no talking on the phones with “friends”. All that money that we’ll save can then be used to get these people security details.

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And no Alexa! That is final!

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“Actions have consequences, old man, now get to your room.”

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Iran is going to respond to these attacks through quieter means than a bunch of missile strikes. And, the administration just put a target on every senior American official…they are now fair game for assassination since Trump ordered the military to pick off a couple upper level government officials. That’s how Iran will see it, and the world may agree…Trump brought this on himself, he’s going to reap it.

Hopefully the Iranians don’t go through with this, or do something like blow up a Trump hotel…innocents will get caught in the crossfire in this tit for tat play. But it just may happen…and, the people crowing the most about assassinating other state officials will be screaming about it happening to us, instead of noting that Trump started it when he should not have done so.

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I wonder how many of the former generals fired from in Trump’s Cabinet are on the list?

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If Trump and his merry band of criminals keep this up, Ameerica will become known as the home of Murder Inc.

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no offense, but

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That’s it.

No more James Bond or Jason Bourne movies at the White House. No more Homeland episodes either.

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Trump, the assassin who’s outgassin’ more fumes than Mt. Lassen.

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Outgassing:

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Set up as a shell company, “SnuffEm LLC.“

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Questions like these are flashing in my mind–

If your loved one’s mental capacity was visibly in decline and he wanted you to feed the neighbor’s dog poisoned meat, would you do it?

Henry Kissinger is responsible for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of deaths. Has anyone tried to blow him up?

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