Warren questions Iran attack timing with impeachment trial looming

[BlueMTexpat]

The Democratic presidential candidate said "people are starting to ask, why now did he do this?"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/warren-questions-iran-attack-timing-impeachment-trial-looming-n1110596

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sunday raised the prospect that President Trump's decision to authorize last week's attack on a top Iranian general may have been linked to the pending impeachment trial in the Senate.

"Next week, Donald Trump faces the start, potentially, of an impeachment trial," the Democratic presidential candidate said in an interview with "Meet the Press."

"People are starting to ask, why now did he do this? Why not delay? And why this one is so dangerous is that he is truly taking us right to the edge of war. And that is something that puts us at risk, it puts the Middle East at risk, it puts the entire world at risk."

Warren also connected the American operation to Trump's call with the Ukrainian president that's at the center of the impeachment debate. She argued that during the call, Trump was "advancing his own personal political interest," and questioned whether political concerns also shaped Trump's decision to take out Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. [Emphasis mine]
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Bravissima, Elizabeth! Stating the obvious so clearly!

[UniteFightBack]

1. It's a good question, the timing is suspect to say the least. nt

[TomCADem]

2. Heck, When President Obama Was President, Trump Was Pushing The Idea...

...that President Obama would attack Iran for political benefit, so it has definitely been in Trump's mind.

To put this in perspective, in 2018, Trump was willing to spend billions of dollars sending military personnel to the border to stop the "immigrant caravan," which RW media was happy to play along and describe as a hostile invasion.

With his own election at stake, Trump is ready to go full scorched earth.

[BlueMTexpat]

3. And he doesn't give a

damn about anyone who is scorched along the way.

That's for sure.