Trump seeks to make al-Baghdadi raid a focal point of reelection campaign
President Trump is making the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi a new focal point of his 2020 campaign. For the past week, Trump has boasted about the Oct. 26 raid that ended with the death of the terrorist leader.
On Friday night, the president began a rally speech by boasting of al-Baghdadi's death, saying that the U.S. military had "executed a masterful raid that ended his wretched life and punched out his ticket to hell."
"He was a savage and soulless monster but his reign of terror is over," Trump told the crowd in in Tupelo, Mississippi. He also claimed the media had not sufficiently covered Baghdadi's death. “That story disappeared so fast, gone. And that’s OK. I didn’t do it for the story. I did it because it was the right thing to do,” Trump said. “If I was a Democrat, they’d be talking about it for weeks. With me, they don't even want to – they actually played it down."
The Trump campaign even ran a political ad during Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday that credited Trump with “obliterating ISIS.”
James Carafano, a defense policy expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation, predicted that closer to November 2020, discussion of the raid will be “ancient history.”
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