Midway through his Christmas vacation, U.S. President Donald Trump huddled with his advisors at his Florida golf club, where he ordered the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Published Saturday, January 4, 2020 6:20PM ESTWEST PALM BEACH, FLA. -- At the midway point of his annual Christmas vacation, U.S. President Donald Trump huddled at his Florida club with his top national security advisers. Days earlier, a rocket attack by an Iranian-funded group struck a U.S.-Iraqi base, killing an American contractor and wounding several others.
On Saturday, the White House sent Congress formal notification under the War Powers Act of the drone strike, said a senior administration official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and requested anonymity. The notification, required by law within 48 hours of the introduction of American forces into an armed conflict or a situation that could lead to war, has to be signed and sent to Congress.
In February 2017, Trump huddled on the patio with Japan's Shinzo Abe, in full view of club members eating dinner, to weigh a response to a North Korean missile test. Two months later, Trump authorized a U.S. missile strike on Syria, then shared chocolate cake with China's President Xi Jinping, who was visiting Mar-a-Lago for meetings.
He betrayed no indication of the momentous decision he was already weighing. More than a half-dozen administration officials, congressional staffers and advisers close to the White House described Trump's decision-making. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss private deliberations.
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