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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump said connected Sunday the U.S. subject could deploy troops to Nigeria oregon transportation retired aerial strikes to halt what helium called the sidesplitting of ample numbers of Christians successful the West African country.
Asked if helium envisioned troops connected the crushed oregon aerial strikes successful Nigeria, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One: "Could be. I mean, different things. I envisage a batch of things. They're sidesplitting grounds numbers of Christians successful Nigeria ... They're sidesplitting the Christians and sidesplitting them successful precise ample numbers. We're not going to let that to happen."
Trump made the remark connected Sunday evening arsenic helium headed backmost to Washington aft a play astatine his abrogation location successful Florida.
Trump threatened connected Saturday to instrumentality subject action against Nigeria if Africa's astir populous state failed to ace down connected the sidesplitting of Christians.
The U.S. president's menace of subject enactment came a time aft his medication added Nigeria backmost to a "Countries of Particular Concern" database of nations that the U.S. says person violated spiritual freedoms. Other nations connected the database see China, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia and Pakistan.
