<p class="title">President Donald Trump on Monday painted his Democratic opponents as pro-Iranian stooges and retweeted a faked picture of two top party leaders in Muslim garb.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump's latest assault on the senior Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer and House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi followed criticism of his ordering a deadly drone strike against a top Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Anything I do, whether it's the economy, military, or anything else, will be scorned by the Rafical Left, Do Nothing Democrats!" Trump fumed on Twitter, misspelling "Radical." Earlier, he retweeted a photoshopped picture depicting Pelosi in a hijab and Schumer wearing a turban.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The US killing of Soleimani near the airport in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has stoked fears of war across the region.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump insists that Soleimani had to be killed to prevent an imminent attack on four US embassies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, senior administration officials have given varied accounts, leading Democrats to question the whole episode, which comes on the eve of Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In his Monday tweets, Trump claimed the Democrats and what he calls "the Fake News" media were "trying to make terrorist Soleimani into a wonderful guy, only because I did what should have been done for 20 years."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Responding to criticism that he was reckless in ordering the killing of Soleimani -- by some counts the second most important figure in the entire Iranian government -- Trump again insisted that there'd been an imminent threat.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But he also hedged his words, adding that even without an immediate threat requiring such a high-profile attack, Soleimani's past justified the action.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners are working hard to determine whether or not the future attack by terrorist Soleimani was 'eminent' or not, & was my team in agreement," Trump tweeted, misspelling "imminent."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The answer to both is a strong YES., but it doesn't really matter because of his horrible past!" Last week, Trump told a reelection campaign rally that Pelosi and other Democrats could not be trusted with classified information in cases like the killing of Soleimani.</p>
<p class="title">President Donald Trump on Monday painted his Democratic opponents as pro-Iranian stooges and retweeted a faked picture of two top party leaders in Muslim garb.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump's latest assault on the senior Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer and House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi followed criticism of his ordering a deadly drone strike against a top Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Anything I do, whether it's the economy, military, or anything else, will be scorned by the Rafical Left, Do Nothing Democrats!" Trump fumed on Twitter, misspelling "Radical." Earlier, he retweeted a photoshopped picture depicting Pelosi in a hijab and Schumer wearing a turban.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The US killing of Soleimani near the airport in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has stoked fears of war across the region.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Trump insists that Soleimani had to be killed to prevent an imminent attack on four US embassies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, senior administration officials have given varied accounts, leading Democrats to question the whole episode, which comes on the eve of Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In his Monday tweets, Trump claimed the Democrats and what he calls "the Fake News" media were "trying to make terrorist Soleimani into a wonderful guy, only because I did what should have been done for 20 years."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Responding to criticism that he was reckless in ordering the killing of Soleimani -- by some counts the second most important figure in the entire Iranian government -- Trump again insisted that there'd been an imminent threat.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But he also hedged his words, adding that even without an immediate threat requiring such a high-profile attack, Soleimani's past justified the action.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners are working hard to determine whether or not the future attack by terrorist Soleimani was 'eminent' or not, & was my team in agreement," Trump tweeted, misspelling "imminent."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The answer to both is a strong YES., but it doesn't really matter because of his horrible past!" Last week, Trump told a reelection campaign rally that Pelosi and other Democrats could not be trusted with classified information in cases like the killing of Soleimani.</p>