Honestly, this conspiracy theory reminds me of all those polls in which Democrats say Barack Obama is the best president and Republicans say Donald Trump is the best president. Lawrence O'Donnell is not just suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, he's also suffering from acute recency bias.
It appears the salivating MSNBC host read the Times article with delight and thought John Bolton was the final push to get the Trump house of cards to collapse in on itself. From this ridiculous standpoint, it might make sense that Trump would do anything to get Bolton not to testify. Naturally, with hindsight, we now know that the immense geopolitical victory that was Soleimani's death would not inspire World War III, but only a week of fearmongering.
O'Donnell shows his Trump derangement syndrome in the passion to search for an underlying hidden motive for the Soleimani strike — as if the Quds Force leader had not wreaked havoc on the Middle East, killed hundreds of U.S. troops, likely coordinated an attack on a U.S. Embassy, and almost certainly was planning more attacks, some likely imminent. None of this is enough to satisfy Lawrence O'Donnell, who must find Trump's nefarious motive in carrying out this extremely reasonable response.
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