TEHRAN, Nov 3_Taking credit for the alleged killing of Daesh chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appears to be playing a key role in US President Donald Trump’s reelection bid.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_Trump has been bragging about the October 26 raid at the Takfiri leader’s compound in northern Syria, including in rallies held ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
"He was a savage and soulless monster but his reign of terror is over," the president said at a rally in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Trump, whose 50-minute television appearance for the raid was compared to former President Barrack Obama’s much shorter statement in the wake of then-al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's alleged death, even claimed that the announcement was “played down.”
“That story disappeared so fast, gone. And that’s OK. I didn’t do it for the story. I did it because it was the right thing to do,” Trump said Friday night. “If I was a Democrat, they’d be talking about it for weeks. With me, they don't even want to – they actually played it down."
The reelection campaign has even gone as far as releasing a political ad crediting the president with “obliterating ISIS (Daesh).”
Trump, whose 50-minute television appearance for the raid was compared to former President Barrack Obama’s much shorter statement in the wake of then-al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's alleged death, even claimed that the announcement was “played down.”
“That story disappeared so fast, gone. And that’s OK. I didn’t do it for the story. I did it because it was the right thing to do,” Trump said Friday night. “If I was a Democrat, they’d be talking about it for weeks. With me, they don't even want to – they actually played it down."
The reelection campaign has even gone as far as releasing a political ad crediting the president with “obliterating ISIS (Daesh).”
source:presstv
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