In 2011 and 2012 Donald Trump repeatedly accused President Barack Obama of seeking war with Iran to help win the 2012 presidential election.

Tweets from back in 2011 and 2012 in which Donald Trump predicted that President Barack Obama would start a war with Iran to secure his reelection have gone viral, after the US assassinated a top Iranian general, dramatically escalating its confrontation with Iran.

Trump personally ordered the killing by airstrike oftop Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, who died in the early hours of Friday near an airport in Baghdad, Iraq.

The Pentagon said that Soleimani "was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region."

Trump's only statement was to tweet a picture of the US flag.

Despite his evident pride at the attack, many on social media seized on his previous posts where, with Obama in the White House, Trump had condemned the idea of military action against Iran as foolish electioneering.

Trump, then best known as a reality TV star and real estate developer, hammered home the point in a 2011 video filmed in his Trump Tower office.

After Obama successfully won reelection, Trump continued to claim that he was seeking war with Iran.

Trump's attacks on Obama's Iran policy came amid heightened tensions over Iran's quest to build a nuclear missile, which the Obama administration had sought to halt.

Israel, a key US ally in the Middle East, had threatened air strikes against Iran to cripple its nuclear program. But with Obama having pledged to limit US entanglement in foreign conflicts, the administration was wary of conflict with Iran.

During his second term Obama sought rapprochement with Iran and its new reformist president, Hassan Rouhani, successfully negotiating the Iran nuclear deal that saw the Islamic republic halt its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

During Trump's three years in power tensions with Iran have escalated, with the president scrapping the nuclear deal in 2018 and introducing new, punishing sanctions.

Iran responded with a series of attacks on the US and its allies, culminating in an attack on the US embassy in Baghdad Tuesday by protesters of an Iran-backed militia.

Trump's approval rating are currently languishing at 42.4 %, according to pollsters FiveThirtyEight, and moving into 2020 he will become the first US president in history to face an impeachment trial while running for reelection.

The last president to be impeached, Bill Clinton, also faced accusations of launching a foreign military strike to distract voters from his domestic political woes.

Back in December 1998, Clinton authorized airstrikes against the regime of then Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, only a day after the House of Representatives accused him of "high crimes and misdemeanors" in relation to his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky.

Source:https://www.businessinsider.com/old-trump-tweets-emerge-claim-obama-wanted-war-iran-2020-1

the internet never forgets

popsy2:
the internet never forgets

That's it.

Hypocrite everywhere..

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Burssssssssssted.



But there's no going back on this. Suleiman is dead, war is imminent and inevitable.....

Nawa for Trump sha , but in many ways he is a good president , if not for him many immoral things would have been happening in the world now

blakid:
Hypocrite everywhere..

During his campaign he said America has bled enough for the middle east and we are pulling our troops out but they keep sending bombers and troops to the middle east and the truth is they still have to bleed the more.

He killed an animal


Iranians are happy

OZAOEKPE:
He killed an animal


Iranians are happy

Really? Did you watch his funeral procession in Iraq and Iran? He is loved by his people.