POLITICS Trump will address the nation Sunday morning with a ‘major statement’ after cryptic tweet PUBLISHED 2 HOURS AGOUPDATED 16 MIN AGO Mike Calia KEY POINTS President Donald Trump will make a “major statement” to the nation at 9 a.m. ET Sunday, the White House said. It wasn’t immediately clear what Trump would discuss in his speech. Trump tweeted Saturday night that “Something very big has just happened!” but did not follow up with further details.
It will be something to boast about based on what I know about him. It is not Donald Trump's style to keep people in suspense if it's bad news like tariffs on China. He will send the tweet directly. He wants to capture everyone's attention first and await for his big news. So, it has to be something he can boast about.
I was going to say the same exact thing. If it was negative it would have been announced by now but since it's going to be a positive statement he wants to have a separate announcement about the announcement. I doubt it will be anything spectacular as he makes it seem to be .
IS leader 'was at US attack site' prior to raid believed to have killed him Over the years, the IS boss has been reported multiple times to have been killed, but none of these reports have been confirmed. https://news.sky.com/story/trump-to...-11846393?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral Sharon Marris News reporter @JournoKiwi Sunday 27 October 2019 10:31, UK Syria Footage shows a crater in the ground and the aftermath of a raid that reportedly killed IS leader Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was at the location of a US raid that may have killed him 48 hours prior to the attack, a senior Turkish official has said. Al Baghdadi, who had a $25m (£19.5m) bounty on his head, has been the subject of an international manhunt for years but there is no official confirmation as to whether the operation was successful. Newsweek said it had been told by a US Army official that al Baghdadi was dead, as a result of the military raid in Syria's northwestern Idlib province. Something very big has just happened! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2019 An official told the Associated Press that confirmation of the IS boss's death in an explosion is pending. The Pentagon has not commented. US President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday night: "Something very big has just happened!" - but he gave no further explanation. White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said the president would make a "major statement" at 1pm GMT on Sunday but he did not say what it would be about. The senior Turkish official, who has not been named, said: "To the best of my knowledge, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi arrived at this location 48 hours prior to the raid. We have been in close coordination with the relevant parties." The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Syria war monitor, reported an attack carried out by a squadron of eight helicopters accompanied by a warplane belonging to the international coalition. IS operatives are believed to be hiding in the area, it said. Image: Al Baghdadi in 2014 and 2019 It said the helicopters targeted IS positions with heavy strikes for about two hours, during which jihadists fired at the aircraft with heavy weapons. The UK-based observatory, which operates through a network of activists on the ground, documented the deaths of nine people as a result of assault. It is not yet known whether al Baghdadi is one of them, it said, adding that the death toll is likely to rise due to the large number of wounded. A senior Iraqi security official, who asked for anonymity, told the Associated Press that Iraqi intelligence played a part in the operation. He said al Baghdadi and his wife both detonated explosive vests they were wearing during the US commando operation, and said other IS leaders were killed in the attack. The strike came amid concerns that a recent US pullback from northeastern Syria could infuse new strength into the militant group, which had lost vast stretches of territory it had once controlled. Al Baghdadi, who led IS for the past five years, was seen in the summer of 2014 in the pulpit of the Nouri mosque in Mosul. He urged Muslims around the world to swear allegiance to the caliphate and obey him as its leader. "It is a burden to accept this responsibility to be in charge of you," he said in the video. "I am not better than you or more virtuous than you. If you see me on the right path, help me. If you see me on the wrong path, advise me and halt me. And obey me as far as I obey God." In 2015, he was reportedly severely injured in an airstrike in western Iraq, and he was possibly even killed a few years later according to Russian officials. He has also been heard in a number of audio messages to followers, including an 18-minute speech given earlier this year. Al Baghdadi oversaw a shift away from large-scale attacks towards smaller-acts of violence that would be harder for law enforcement to prevent. He encouraged jihadists who could not travel to the caliphate to kill where they were, with whatever weapon they had at their disposal. In the US, multiple extremists have pledged their allegiance to al Baghdadi on social media, including a woman who along with her husband committed a 2015 massacre at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California.
Curious what his tone will be.. I guess a suicide vest will be hard to spin as he was probably in bed instead of the situation room as Obama and crew were.
Abu Bakr al-Cockroach. CNN is currently involved in a mad scramble to find some reason why this is not a good thing, and why Trump should be impeached for it.