“Let’s f****** kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the f****** lot of them,” the Post writes that Trump said after Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched a chemical attack on his own citizens in April 2017. According to Woodward's account as reported by the Post, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told Trump that he would move forward on assassinating Assad. Immediately after he got off the phone with the president, though, Mattis told an aide that “We’re not going to do any of that. We’re going to be much more measured.”
Regardless of whether this is true, I think this helps Trump with foreign policy, especially with the Iranians and North Korea. Taken at face value, Trump has no qualms about taking out heads of state. This can't make Kim Jun Un and the Iranians rest easy at night.
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