Trump on the killing of Qasem Soleimani:
Israel, at the last moment, backed out when I killed him. That was supposed to be done with Israel. It was a joint thing.
We worked on it for 30 days. He only travels in commercial airliners with lots of people because he knows we're not going to shoot him down. You know, a military plane is different.
And he got into the plane. Everything was on schedule. But a day before, Israel told us they're not going to do the attack. And I understood that, because it was not so good for them.
But I went to certain generals, not the stupid ones like Milley and some of these guys that were very stupid people that decided to leave equipment behind. I don't leave equipment behind.
But I went to some good guys. I said, "What do you guys think?" They said, "Well, we can do it without 'em, we don't need 'em, sir."
I said, "Would it be as good?" They said, "Just as good or better."
And it was a flawless attack.
Source: Axios