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Trump Repeatedly Said Obama Would Start War With Iran to Get Elected

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President Trump repeatedly suggested before he was elected to the White House that then-President Obama would start a war with Iran to get reelected.
Trump’s remarks have won renewed attention in the wake of the Thursday night airstrike he authorized that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the powerful Iranian military commander who led the elite Quds Force.


The strikes, which come amid high U.S.-Iranian tensions and a month before the Iowa caucuses, took place in an election year for Trump.
Trump on Friday said Soleimani should have been taken out years ago in another shot at his predecessors in the White House.
“General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended period of time, and was plotting to kill many more…but got caught! He was directly and indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people, including the recent large number of PROTESTERS killed in Iran itself,” Trump tweeted Friday morning.
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