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The 41 most shocking lines from Donald Trump's Baghdadi announcement

On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump announced that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had died as a result of a US raid in northern Syria. And then he kept talking. And taking questions. And more questions.

www.cnn.com|Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

• “Stable Genius” Trump’s words incite more violence against Americans.
• Republicans, terrorists will be repeating Trump’s words after they’ve killed members of the U.S. Armed Forces and American citizens.

5. "Baghdadi was vicious and violent. And he died in a vicious and violent way, as a coward, running and crying."

6. "He died like a dog. He died like a coward."

8. "Russia treated us great. They opened up. We had a fly over certain Russia areas, Russia-held areas. Russia was great."

13. "You know, they use the internet better than almost anybody in the world, perhaps other than Donald Trump." 

14. "And what they've done with the internet through recruiting and everything -- and that's why he died like a dog, he died like a coward. He was whimpering, screaming and crying."

19. "That was to notify you guys that you have something big this morning, so you wouldn't be out playing golf or tennis or otherwise being indisposed."

25. "The European nations have been a tremendous disappointment, because I personally called, but my people called a lot, take your ISIS fighters. And they didn't want them."

26. "They can't walk to our country. We have lots of water in between our country and them."

37. "I wrote a book. A really very successful book. And in that book, about a year before the World Trade Center was blown up, I said there's somebody named Osama bin Laden, you better kill him or take him out, something to that effect, he's big trouble."

38. "And I'm writing a book. I think I wrote 12 books, all did very well."