Trump claimed that Baghdadi was 'whimpering, crying and screaming' as U.S. special forces closed in on his hiding place on Saturday.
President Donald Trump confirmed the death of the leader of militant group Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, on Sunday, delivering the news with relish in a live televised statement.
Nick Paton Walsh, an international correspondent for CNN, even suggested that there were similarities between Trump's statement and the kind of aggressive, visceral rhetoric the international community has come to expect of ISIS itself.there were several moments in the speech which"jarred to some degree" and that the White House's management of the event was"extraordinary.
The president said that the ISIS leader, cornered in a sealed tunnel, detonated a suicide vest as U.S. troops closed in on his position. Three of his children are also believed to have died in the explosion. "He died like a dog, he died like a coward. The world is now a much safer place," Trump added of Baghdadi.
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