‘I walked to my home, spent a week in silence, biggest moment of my life’: Trump claims Khan was delighted about Iran operative death

Former American President Donald Trump is revealing about the killing of Iran’s master operative General Qassem Soleimani in 2020 just before COVID took over the world.

Trump said that former Prime Minister Imran Khan ‘rejoiced’ at the killing.

“There was a Khan, a great cricket player, he became the head of Pakistan, he said it was the single biggest thing I can ever remember happening in my life when Soleimani was killed,” Trump said.

Trump spills some beans around the killing of Iran’s master operative general Qassem Soleimani in 2020 just before COVID.

One, about former Pakistan PM Imran Khan rejoicing at the killing. Another, more important, about Iran staging the retribution by not just giving heads up… pic.twitter.com/q9DCtOOfxz

— Hassan I. Hassan (@hxhassan) November 6, 2023

He further claimed that Khan said, “I left my office, I walked to my home, I stayed in my home in solitude for one week, It was the biggest event that ever happened to me. He was the biggest cricket player. That’s like being a great NFL player or a great baseball player. He was said to be just about the best handsome guy. He became the boss, Pakistan.”

Trump was addressing a campaign rally in Houston, Texas, a city with a large Pakistani diaspora population.

However, Trump’s claim of Imran Khan going into seclusion seems to be untrue. Journalist Omar Warraich pointed out in a X thread that Khan addressed a rally in his hometown Mianwali, the very next day and did not mention Soleimani’s assassination in the speech.

Imran Khan didn’t go into seclusion for a week. He gave a speech in his hometown the next day, without mentioning the incident. https://t.co/IzkGRbkpIg

— Omar Waraich (@OmarWaraich) November 6, 2023

Trump’s claim that Imran Khan walked from his office, the Prime Minister Secretariat, to his home, Bani Gala, also seems to be untrue. It has never been reported that Khan ever walked home, a distance of roughly 15 kilometers.

The United States assassinated Qasem Soleimani with a drone strike in Baghdad on January 3, 2020. Soleimani was an Iranian general, the country’s most powerful commander, widely considered to be the most important person in Iran after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

Soleimani was the leader of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, a pivotal figure in managing Iran’s campaign to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq, and built up Iran’s network of proxy armies across the Middle East. Washington accused Soleimani of masterminding attacks by Iranian-aligned militias on U.S. forces in the region.