Trump wanted to ‘f–king kill’ Assad after chemical weapon attack: Woodward

A bellicose President Trump wanted to kill Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad after he launched a chemical weapons attack on civilians in April 2017, according to the new White House tell-all by Bob Woodward of the Washington Post.
The commander-in-chief called Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and issued the deadly order.
“Let’s f–king kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the f–king lot of them,” Trump said, according to the book, the subject of a lengthy article in the DC paper on Tuesday.
Mattis told the president that he’d get right on it.
But after hanging up, he told a senior aide: “We’re not going to do any of that. We’re going to be much more measured.”

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