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Donald Trump: “I was the one that killed General Soleimani.”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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Special Report: Trump holds G7 summit press conference amid tentative Iran deal

Published | Video Starts at 02:01

Because We're going to take you live to France where President Trump is holding a news conference on the final day of the G7 summit. The President is already speaking, so we're going to take you there live right now. I was the one that killed General Soleimani. If I didn't kill General Soleimani, we probably wouldn't be talking right now about this deal because he was a mad genius. They never were able to replace him. (02:01–02:05)

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Asserts responsibility for the killing of General Soleimani.

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