Just three days after Pres. Trump ordered an airstrike in Baghdad that killed Qassem Soleimani, his re-election campaign sent an email blast to millions of his supporters touting and fundraising off the military action.
January 8, 2020, 10:26 PM“As long as I’m president of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said.ordered an airstrike in Baghdad that killed the leader of Iran's elite Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, his re-election campaign sent an email blast to millions of his supporters touting and fundraising off the military action.
Less than a full week following Trump’s military order to take out the top Iranian commander, the president’s campaign has worked swiftly to capitalize on and weave that move into a political advantage through fundraising, list building and attacks on 2020 Democratic rivals. Trump would go on to say Soleimani was “planning a very major attack and we got him,” which the president and the broader administration have reiterated. Democrats have raised questions about what evidence the administration has that an attack was"imminent," and so far the administration has refused to declassify that intelligence.
The president added the U.S. would impose"powerful" and"punishing" economic sanctions against Iran, but did not level any immediate threats of military action against the Iranian regime, despite saying he would retaliate if Iran attacked the U.S. , the Trump campaign has also targeted them, including former Vice President Joe Biden in an email writing, “President Trump Is Cleaning Up Joe Biden’s Iran Mess,” calling the “Obama-Biden Iran deal” a “disaster.”
“Wringing some political advantage out of a foreign policy crisis is not all that unusual. Consider the Kennedy administration after the Cuban Missile Crisis, for example,” Andrew Bacevich, a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University and the president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft told ABC News.
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