$100k plate fundraising dinner at Mar A Lago SAT. 100 'plates'. Take for the night $10,000,000. Regaled his donors with SOLEMANI takedown. (Appears he EMBELLISHED, duh!!) No imminent attack MENTIONs, by the way. Seems that SOME might have considered that important even to $100k donors. Guess not.
“ ‘Sir, they have two minutes and 11 seconds.’ No emotion. ‘Two minutes and
11 seconds to live, sir. They’re in the car, they’re in an armored vehicle. Sir, they have approximately
one minute to live, sir. Thirty seconds. Ten, 9, 8 . . . ’ Then all of a sudden, boom.”
WAPO
By Colby Itkowitz and
David A. Fahrenthold
Jan. 18, 2020 at 11:51 a.m. EST
President Trump delivered a dramatic account of the airstrike that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, joked that he doesn’t care if construction projects kill all the rattlesnakes and noted his indifference to the budget during a private dinner with deep-pocketed donors Friday night at Mar-a-Lago, according to audio files obtained by The Washington Post.
Trump, his tone subdued and conversational, explained his motivation for attacking Soleimani and recounted listening to an anonymous military official countdown to the Jan. 3 strike.
The president said nothing about an “imminent attack” on U.S. interests or threats to four U.S. embassies as he previously has to justify the unilateral military strike that escalated tensions in the region and opened debate on presidential war powers.
Instead, he spoke broadly about Soleimani as “the father of the roadside bomb” responsible for “every young, beautiful man or woman who you see walking around with no legs, no arms.” Trump said he heard about two weeks ago that the United States had Soleimani under surveillance and he was “talking about bad stuff.”
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