U.S. President Donald Trump has admitted he wanted to "take out" Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2017 but was deterred by then Defense Secretary James Mattis, the RT website reports today (September 15, 2020).
"I would have rather taken Assad out," Trump told Fox & Friends today, insisting "I had him all set," but "Mattis didn't want to do it."
"Mattis was against most of that stuff," Trump told the channel.
Trump went on to blame Mattis for "not doing the job in Syria or Iraq with respect to ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria]," claiming the U.S. "took out 100 percent of ISIS as well as the terrorist group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," but only after Trump fired Mattis.
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