{UAH} Trump says ISIS leader, al-Bghdadi is dead
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Folks;President Donald Trump announced the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State.
"A brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, has violently been eliminated," Trump said in an address to the nation from the White House. "He will never again harm another innocent man, woman or child. He died like a dog. He died like a coward. The world is now a much safer place."
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Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared in a rare new video released Monday.
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Trump said he was able to watch most of the operation in the situation room as it happened.
Stop congratulating Obama for killing Bin Laden. The Navy Seals killed Bin Laden. #debate
President Barack Obama reads his statement on the death of Osama bin Laden from the East Room of the White House on May 1, 2011.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
As President Donald Trump announced the death of ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi this morning, it was impossible to avoid comparisons to President Barack Obama's May 2011 announcement that Navy SEALs had killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Trump was clearly thinking about that key moment of his predecessor's presidency as he asserted that Baghdadi had been a threat "long before I took office" and that the ISIS leader had been "the biggest one we've ever captured." He also repeated the false claim that he had identified bin Laden as a threat before 9/11.
Trump's attempts to diminish Obama's role in taking down bin Laden aren't new. In the years following the raid, he frequently took to Twitter to suggest that Obama was taking too much credit for getting bin Laden. The very first mention came in November 2011, in which Trump appears to sanction the waterboarding of al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed for the sake of gathering intelligence on bin Laden. (The Obama administration had banned this form of torture; Trump has since tried to resurrect the practice.)
Waterboarding KSM gave us the intelligence that lead to Bin Laden.
Later that year, Trump went on CNN to talk about why Obama didn't "deserve credit for killing bin Laden." In the spring of 2012, he reiterated that point on CNBC and in a tweet that cited an article from Breitbart.
Yesterday I explained to @wolfblitzercnn on @CNNSitRoom why @BarackObama doesn't deserve credit for killing Bin Laden http://bit.ly/TkduX
My @SquawkCNBC interview discussing @BarackObama's #WHCD, my Scotland property & @BarackObama using Bin Laden's death http://bit.ly/KoxCfC
Admiral McRaven had full operational control of the Bin Laden mission http://bit.ly/Kg7vrN @BarackObama gave vague directions.
In September 2012, a Navy SEAL who had been part of the bin Laden mission published a tell-all autobiography that contradicted some details of the Obama administration's telling of the raid. Trump called Obama's "story a big lie."
Military reps have attacked @BarackObama over Bin Laden leaks--they believe he's just using this for his benefit. Not a big surprise...
Book on Bin Laden is a terrible violation of code--makes @BarackObama's story a big lie.
On the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, Trump emphasized that a Navy SEAL killed bin Laden, setting up a new round of attacks on Obama as the 2012 election neared.
On this solemn day of remembrance we can all take joy in the fact that Bin Laden's last sight was a Navy SEAL pulling the trigger.
After Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney congratulated Obama during a debate for "taking out Osama bin Laden," Trump railed against the president for taking credit for bin Laden's slaying. He declared that the debate was the first time Obama used "we" instead of "I" in describing the terrorist leader's death. (It was not.)
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