Trump admits he was 'all set' to assassinate Assad after calling reports of the plan 'fiction'

In Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, the journalist describes a scene from 2017 in which President Trump pushed then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis to "kill" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after he launched a chemical attack on civilians. Mattis, Woodward reports, opted for a more measured approach in the end. In response to the excerpt, Trump said last week that assassinating Assad "was never even contemplated, nor would it be contemplated," while generally describing the book as "fiction." T...