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AMerica President Donald Trump said he wanted to kill Syrian ruler Bashar al Assad in 2017. His then Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, however, spoke out against the operation, Trump told Fox News on Tuesday. “I would have preferred to turn it off”, clarified the president.
Everything was ready, but “Mattis didn’t want to do it.” This was a “very overrated general” who he later fired, Trump said. However, he does not regret the decision not to kill Assad.
“I sure didn’t think he was a good person, but I had a chance to turn him down if I wanted to, and Mattis was against it,” Trump said. “Mattis was against most of those things.”
Originally denied
The revelations support reports from 2018, when star journalist Bob Woodward published his book “Fear: Trump in the White House.” According to this, the president is said to have considered killing Assad after the Syrian head of state used chemical weapons against civilians in April 2017. Trump said US forces should “come in” and “kill” Assad, Woodward reported in his book.
At the time, Trump denied the process.
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