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US President Donald Trump admitted in an interview with Fox News that he wanted to kill Syrian leader Bashar Assad, but Defense Minister James Mathis was against it.
“I would remove it. I set it all up, but Mathis didn’t want us to do it,” Trump said. The US president described former Secretary of War Mathis as “a general who did a poor job.” Syria has been in civil war since 2011. Russia supports the Bashar Assad regime, while US troops support Kurdish fighters fighting him.
When asked if he regretted that Assad was not assassinated and if it was not related to Russia’s position, Trump said he “does not feel sorry.” “I do not consider him a good man and we had the opportunity to do it, but Mathis was against, Mathis was against such measures,” added the president. Bloomberg recalls that in a book by American journalist Bob Woodward there is a statement that Trump asked Mathis to prepare a plan to assassinate Assad, but Mathis did not agree.
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