US assassination underscores Trump's ‘lawless thuggery’: Guardian
The US assassination of Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani has brought America to the verge of an illegal war with Iran and is the latest example of President Donald Trump’s “lawless thuggery,” according to an editorial in The Guardian.
Although other US presidents have disregarded the rule of domestic and international laws, Trump is unique is this regard due to the overall pattern, the British newspaper said in its article published on Sunday.
“You see the pattern: whistleblowers intimidated, the justice department politicized, findings of special counsels and inspectors general distorted or ignored, foreign policy made by a private citizen unaccountable to anybody, rogue military officers and rogue sheriffs pardoned,” the editorial said.
“The biggest immediate news is the president’s killing of Qassem Suleimani. The act brings America to the brink of an illegal war with Iran without any congressional approval, in direct violation of Congress’s war-making authority under the constitution,” the article added.
“Trump is substituting lawless thuggery for impartial justice,” it said. “Viewed as a whole, Trump’s lawlessness is systematically corrupting justice in the US.”
The Guardian said Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, “is using the authority of the presidency to mount a rogue foreign policy designed to keep Trump in power.”
US Attorney General William Barr is supposed to be responsible to the American people, but “instead he’s become Trump’s advocate,” according to the editorial.
“Barr is part of Trump’s private goon squad, along with Rudy Giuliani, chief enabler Mick Mulvaney and Trump’s resident white supremacist, Stephen Miller.”
The Trump administration is already in danger of losing control of the political storm unleashed by its killing of General Soleimani.
A US drone carried out an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport early on Friday, assassinating General Soleimani, who was the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), as well as eight other people.
Iran has pledged a “harsh revenge” against America for the assassination.
“Trump's claim that the drone strike last week made Americans safer is being challenged by cascading events that appear to leave the US more vulnerable and isolated,” CNN said in a report on Sunday.
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