INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
US President Donald Trump has said the death of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani last week was "American justice" and had saved
lives.Speaking at his first major campaign event of the year, the commander-in-chief put the ongoing crisis in Iran front and centre of his
speech in Toledo, Ohio, accusing Maj Gen Soleimani of planning "imminent" attacks on US targets in the Middle East."Last week the United
States once again took the bold and decisive action to save American lives and deliver American justice," Mr Trump told
supporters.Image:Iranian general Qassem Suleimani was killed in a US airstrike"Soleimani was actively planning new attacks and he was
looking very seriously at our embassies and not just the embassy in Baghdad, but we stopped him and we stopped him quickly and we stopped
him cold."The president also took aim at senior Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, who are leading the impeachment proceedings against
Mr Trump, over their objections to the airstrike that killed the Iranian general last week.He said that Mr Schiff had a "pencil neck" and
that Ms Pelosi, who is the speaker for the House of Representatives, is not "operating with a full deck".Mr Trump said: "We got a call
We heard where he [Maj Gen Soleimani] was
We knew the way he was getting there."We didn't have time to call up Nancy, who isn't operating with a full deck
They want us to tell them so they can leak it to their friends in the corrupt media."He also referred to veteran senator and Democratic
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders as "crazy Bernie" over his objections to the strike.Image:Mr Trump spoke to supporters in Ohio on
Thursday nightMr Trump had previously appeared to draw a line under his involvement in Iran, declaring that the country "appears to be
standing down" from the brink of conflict.He also used his rally to address a topic that has frequently appeared to irk him - the Nobel
Peace Prize.Mr Trump has often lamented his lack of the world-renowned award, and in his speech on Thursday night, he said that instead of
last year's winner - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed - he should have been awarded it instead.Trump: Iran 'standing down' after missile
strikesHe said: "I made a deal
I saved a country, and I just heard that the head of that country is now getting the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the country."I said,
'What?' Did I have something to do with it? Yeah
But, you know, that's the way it is
As long as we know, it's all that matters."
