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grapesinajar on January 13rd, 2020 at 16:02 UTC »

Ah.. so it was all about himself after all. That figures. I think it's evident now that everything Trump thinks and does is about himself.

He's like a caricature of everything we've always thought of most politicians. A pure idea, distilled, personified and tinted orange. A creature born of the lowest of our collective psyche's expectations. A kind of Godzilla of disappointment.

maxwellhill on January 13rd, 2020 at 15:46 UTC »

FTA

Trump on Friday told Fox News that Soleimani was planning to attack four American embassies. But the president explained the previous day that only one embassy — in Baghdad — was at imminent risk. Mike Pompeo said Thursday that attacks were imminent, but added: “We don’t know when, we don’t know where.”

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 Sen. Tom Cotton,

Trump tipped off another hawk, Lindsey Graham about the attack when Graham visited Mar-a-Lago. Yet Trump did not warn other congressional leaders, nor European allies or Persian Gulf partners, noted the NYT.

The WSJ 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.

So Trump is very worried about the impeachment trial and the assassination Soleimani is to divert public attention.

teslacoil1 on January 13rd, 2020 at 15:45 UTC »

He told some associates that he wanted to preserve the support of Republican hawks in the Senate in the coming impeachment trial, naming Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas as an example, even though they had not spoken about Iran since before Christmas.

Source: NYT article

New York Times is the second newspaper to confirm Trump went after Soleimani because he wanted to preserve support from Republican Senators for the upcoming impeachment trial. The WSJ was the other newspaper to confirm this.