The media continued to lose their minds over Trump's killing of Soleimani.

The U.S. takes protective steps to prevent further Iranian aggression.

And John Bolton signals he could testify in the Senate impeachment trial.

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slash pen. All right. Well, latest breaking developments in the whole saga between the United

States and Iran, which of course was kicked into high gear last week after Iranian-backed

militias burned the U.S. Embassy. I'm amazed how every news story now begins with the killing of

Soleimani, Qasem Soleimani, the head of the terror wing of the. Embassy. I'm amazed how every news story now begins with the killing of Soleimani,

Qasem Soleimani, the head of the terror wing of the Iranian government. I'm just shocked,

really, that the media begin every single story with Soleimani's killing as though nothing

happened before it, as though this was the beginning of time, as though Trump spoke and then

there was light. That is not the way any of this worked.

Even last week, what precipitated the actual killing of Soleimani was the fact that Iranian-backed

militias were attacking a U.S. embassy in Baghdad and trying to burn it down and kill people inside.

That is what precipitated this entire crisis. And there had been months of such precipitous action

by the Iranians, attacks on Saudi oil facilities, attacks on shipping in the Straits of Hormuz, attacks on an American drone, Iranian militias attacking U.S.-backed forces in Iraq. And all this had been going on, that's just for months, but for years, like literally for years. And yet every single story seems to begin with the killing of Soleimani, as though Trump just woke up one morning and was like, you know what feels good? You know what I'd love to do today? I'm just going to kill a guy. Like just boom, right through the brain. None of that happened. Okay, Trump was actually convinced to do this over a period of months, according to New York Times reporting, by members of his cabinet, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. This was not ill thought out. It is not as though the Trump administration just did this on a moment's notice. In fact, how could you even come up with such a killing on a moment's notice? The answer is, you don't. They must have been tracking Soleimani for quite a long time. And yet every media story begins with Trump killing Soleimani. Why? Because this is

supposed to lead to the narrative that it's Trump who's the true aggressor. And that is the

Democrat media narrative today, that the Trump administration is doing unprecedented, terrible

things. What is the latest unprecedented terrible thing? Well, apparently the Trump administration

is now blocking Iran's top diplomat from addressing the UN Security Council. That'd be foreign minister Mohammed Ashavad Zarif. Zareef came out like just a few days ago and suggested that President Trump ought to be assassinated, that he ought to die. Okay, the Iranian government placed an $80 million bounty on Trump's head. So Trump's saying, yeah, you're not coming here and you're not coming to U.S. soil. You're not going to this organization that we pay for called the UN and you're just going to jab her there about how terrible we are. You can stick it. You can stick it, buddy. Good for Trump. Now, Zerif is like, wow, that's a violation of international law. It's fun to watch the Iranian suddenly realize that international law violations are a bad thing.

After literally decades of violating international law, after the worst sorts of human rights violations

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