Trump Shares Collateral Murder Style Snuff Film On 15th Anniversary Of Collateral Murder

Trump Shares Collateral Murder Style Snuff Film On 15th Anniversary Of Collateral Murder

April 5, 2025

U.S. and ISRAEL IMPERIALISM - FOLLOW THE MONEY

Caitlin Johnstone

I’ve seen many observers comparing the video Trump posted to the leaked Collateral Murder video published by WikiLeaks in 2010, which showed U.S. servicemen firing on Iraqi civilians and journalists from Apache helicopters while laughing and joking about the carnage they were inflicting. What hasn’t received quite enough attention is the fact that Trump actually shared his Collateral Murder-style snuff film on the 15th anniversary of the day WikiLeaks published Collateral Murder.

Within hours of Trump’s posting, the WikiLeaks Twitter account tweeted the following:

“On this day in 2010: Collateral Murder. WikiLeaks released a secret U.S. military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad... including two Reuters news staff.”

For those who don’t know, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was savagely persecuted by the U.S. government for the information he published in 2010, spending 2012 to 2019 trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy in London under political asylum from U.S. extradition attempts, and then jailed in a British maximum security prison on a U.S. extradition warrant from 2019 to 2024 before securing his freedom. It was the first Trump administration who had him dragged from the embassy for the crime of journalism in 2019.

This is just the latest disgusting act of warmongering that Trump has inflicted on Yemen, and as always it is completely unjustifiable. It’s obviously idiotic to think bombing Yemen again will bring peace to the region; only a foam-brained moron would believe such a thing. But it’s also worse than that, because Trump wouldn’t even have any moral legitimacy in bombing Yemen if peace really was his goal.

Yemen is trying to stop an active genocide. That’s what its Red Sea blockade has always been about. That’s the only reason Ansar Allah has ever attacked ships in the region. Their explicit and publicly stated goal is to exert pressure on Israel and its allies to halt the genocide in Gaza.

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