President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Nov 20
th, 2018 at 6:52pm:
Mortdooley wrote on Nov 20
th, 2018 at 12:59pm:
AiA wrote on Nov 20
th, 2018 at 6:52am:
Trump disgracing a military hero. It won't end well for the POTUS I am afraid.
Hero, show us the body of Bin Laden!
Quote:President Trump also accused Pakistan for sheltering Osama bin Laden before his death in May 2011.
TRUMP: look, there’s news right there, he lived in Pakistan, we’re supporting Pakistan, we’re giving them $1.3 billion a year, which we don’t give them anymore, by the way, I ended it because they don’t do anything for us, they don’t do a damn thing for us.
BOOM!!!
Pakistan had no clue bin Laden was living in Abbottabad. On the night of the bin Laden operation, US officials eavesdropped on the communications of top Pakistani officials who were completely surprised by the news that bin Laden was living in Abbottabad.
Bin Laden wasn't using any form of electronic communication and relied instead on handheld messages delivered by his trusted courier. As a result, even senior leaders of al Qaeda didn't know where bin Laden was hiding.
And of course Trump has tried to say I told you so. On Twitter: “Of course we should have captured Osama Bin Laden long before we did. I pointed him out in my book just BEFORE the attack on the World Trade Center. President Clinton famously missed his shot. We paid Pakistan Billions of Dollars & they never told us he was living there. Fools!”
But the book, with only a passing mention of bin Laden, did not do more than point to the al-Qaida leader as one of many threats to U.S. security. Trump’s book, “The America We Deserve,” came out more than 1½ years before al-Qaida’s deadly attack on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, not just before.
During the Presidential campaign Trump boasted about his soothsayer abilities regarding bin Laden, stating he said in his book "you better take him out" (which he did not say) and that he “predicted Osama bin Laden” back when “nobody really knew who he was.” Bin Laden was well known by the CIA, other national security operations, experts and the public long before 9/11.
McRaven's crime, that has earned him the ire of Trump, is that he publicly defended former CIA director, John Brennan, in August when the President revoked Brennan's security clearance because of his criticism of Trump.
McRaven has also stood up for the press, which Trump routinely derides as "the enemy of the people." In a speech in Texas last year McRaven said, "This sentiment may be the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime."
The whole issue of the hunt for bin Laden is a sore subject for thin skin Trump because the final countdown for the operation took place during the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner when Obama roasted Trump mercilessly for his penchant for spreading conspiracy theories, such as the so-called "birther" conspiracy.
Side note: Raven is starting the "girther" conspiracy. Trump's doctor reckons he is, wait for it, "239" pounds
why would you lie about that? He is in his 70's, it's OK to be a fatty. When you are that old.