OPINION — Ten minutes into President Trump’s speech at his first 2020 presidential re-election campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, last Friday, he drew great cheers when he said, “If you dare to threaten our citizens, you do so at your own grave peril.”
Moments later, Trump brought up the U.S. Special Forces raid that, last October, killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the ISIS terrorist group. One minute after that, he was on to the January 3, assassination of Iranian Quds Force leader Gen. Qassem Soleimani, which Trump described as a “bold and decisive action to save American lives and deliver American justice.”
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