Trump Couldn't Be Bothered To Be In Situation Room During Failed Yemen Raid That Killed Navy SEAL

[mfcorey1]

During President Donald Trump’s first covert military operation, our craven Commander-in-Chief couldn’t even be bothered to be in the Situation Room. Today, his Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, today stated that Trump was not physically present with Defense Secretary General Mattis and other top security officials to watch and direct the raid.

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/02/02/trump-couldnt-bothered-situation-room-failed-yemen-raid-killed-navy-seal/

[guillaumeb]

1. Was he on Twitter?

A President must prioritize.

[fleur-de-lisa]

8. That or watching cartoons!

[KittyWampus]

25. Watching "Finding Dory".

[subterranean]

2. That's because it failed.

If the raid had been successful, you can bet Trump would be taking credit for it and telling everyone that he was in the room directing the whole thing.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Hey, it was the weekend

and he had made all those phone calls already that went so well.

[mfcorey1]

6. Our military was looking for al queda and our president was still Finding Dory!

[madokie]

12. Perfect

[tblue37]

35. He has Dory's memory problems, but without her charm. nt

[deminks]

4. Mattis was at the Alfalfa Club. He had to leave.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/seal-american-girl-die-first-trump-era-u-s-military-n714346

(snip)

Defense Secretary James Mattis had to leave one of Washington's biggest annual social events, the Alfalfa Club Dinner, to deal with the repercussions, according to the official. He did not return.

(end snip)

So he wasn't in the Situation Room either, at least for all of it.

[gordianot]

10. Which meets to honor General Robert E. Lee.

Shows where loyalties lie.

[KittyWampus]

26. So not even MATTIS was in the Situation Room?

[Cracklin Charlie]

27. So who WAS in the situation room?

[Thor_MN]

33. Your call is important to us, but all of our agents are busy.

Please stay on the line and your call will be answered in the order received.

Para español, presione dos.

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. Nap time!

We must not interrupt the Asst. President when he's having a quiet moment with his binky!

[Alhena]

9. Honestly, the less Trump is in a position to influence events of any kind, the better

nt

[etherealtruth]

11. Apparently, they killed numerous young children yet they are proclaiming this a success?

Malevolent Fucks

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. Yes, Trump is on record calling for the killing of families. He promised it. . . . nt

[HoneyBadger]

53. Killing children is evil

As is bringing them to stay in an AQ camp. Everyone failed these children, from the mother, to Trump, to AQ, to America, to Yemen. No one is blameless.

[TrekLuver]

13. Maybe that's a good thing since it probably would of turned out even worse since he can't even

direct a classroom full of children.

[Kber]

14. Hey - "Finding Dory" isn't going to watch itself!

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

16. Question...

Did Dumbf ever find Dory?

[Kber]

23. Not that Spicer has confirmed

I'm sure he will keep looking.

[Squinch]

15. What a pig. This should be everywhere. It would piss off his base no end.

[Thor_MN]

34. They are already spouting that Obama never visited the family of a dead Seal....

[FreeStateDemocrat]

17. Obamas team worked for months on a Syria plan. Trumps team swiftly tossed it.

To the incoming Trump administration, President Obama’s plan to take Raqqa from ISIS was so incremental and risk-averse that it was almost certain to fail. “We found huge gaps in it,” said a senior Trump administration official. “It was poor staff work.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/regional/?cache=false

GENIUSES are now calling the shots!!!!

[blue neen]

18. It's Trump fault that the raid failed.

There was insufficient intelligence, ground support, or backup operations.

He's got blood on his hands.

[gratuitous]

19. What if a Democrat had done it?

Isn't the brand-new la-de-dah attitude of conservatives something to behold? Oh, a Navy SEAL got killed in a clusterfuck raid? No biggie; he knew the dangers. The president couldn't be bothered to be in the situation room when it went down? What, he's supposed to be on call 24-7? The military initially said there were no civilian casualties and it turns out there were more than 40? Shrug. Fog of War. Can't know everything right away.

Compare and contrast congressional and wingnut reaction to Yemen with their reaction to Benghazi. I wonder if anyone in the popular media will notice?

[kwassa]

20. Because the story was not about him.

Therefore, of no importance.

[C_U_L8R]

21. Off eating frog's legs, no doubt.

Trump's no fucking patriot and the troops should
realize they have a feckless and foolish leader.
There is no honor in 'I was just following orders'
when the country is at stake.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. Freedom Legs?

[NewJeffCT]

22. He was out grabbing some

you know what

[Fearless]

24. Is it up or down a flight of stairs?

[gopiscrap]

28. what a lazy, self centered, uncaring, ignorant asshole!

did I leave anything out?

[world wide wally]

29. If he would have been there more people would have died

[Tanuki]

31. He was too busy chatting on the phone with Putin, and I'm not joking:

(Another poster above mentioned that Mattis had to leave the Alfalfa Club dinner to deal with the ongoing fiasco)

http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2017/01/trump-wont-attend-alfalfa-club-dinner-234264

"President Donald Trump will not attend the annual Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday night, an exclusive black-tie dinner — and White House roast — that every president since Ronald Reagan has attended.

Instead of the president himself, a squadron of senior administration officials and Trump family will attend, including Vice President Mike Pence, Ivanka Trump and her husband, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway.

......"Rather than hobnobbing with senior politicians, billionaire donors and media titans, Trump is expected to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Saturday.".....

[Sunlei]

37. notice the way trump expected a mission success & ready for the big announcement like Obama

did when bin Laden was taken out?

Those people at the dinner were his close advisers, helped approve the mission and knew the attack was happening right then. They were staged for the 'big announcement' but the mission didn't go well at all.

[Tanuki]

39. It certainly makes Ivanka's callous posting of the dress she wore to the Alfalfa Dinner

even more despicable than we already knew. By the time she posted, she knew very well what happened.

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/01/ivanka-trump-social-media-backlash-for-glamorous-photo

[AwakeAtLast]

45. Gawd, that dress is ugly

Looks like it was made out of aluminum foil.

[Sunlei]

36. because it lasted for HOURS and was failing. imo, they expected missile strikes to kill everyone

first and then get in grab bits and get out. Instead they were there for hours, a 'firefight' shooting woman, kids. The rescue flying in to help wounded crashed. trumps responsible.

Obama set up those missions where the president takes advice from experts and makes the final decision. What I found weird was all trumps people said, go. NON-expert people like bannon! helped trump kill a lot of people. Republicans should be ashamed for letting trump do this.

[eleny]

38. The buck stops with no one

[Crash2Parties]

40. I'm going to tell my kids, "this is what 6 hrs of television a day does to your brain"

[rurallib]

41. Maybe Obabama never told him where the Situation Room was

It is all Obama's fault

[Mc Mike]

43. He was moving his toy soldiers around on his desk in the Oval Office.

He had his Napoleon hat on, and his tongue was sticking out the side of his mouth.


He's a POTUS without a T & U.

[NastyRiffraff]

44. Was ANYBODY in the Situation Room?

This is fucking unbelievable. Dump isn't doing even the bare minimum.

[CrispyQ]

46. That's got to pissed the military off, huh? -nt

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

47. Only the Dems. Most of the Rs in the military will support him.

Especially the ones flying Trump flags.


Navy: Special forces flew Trump flag in convoy

“Yes, it was inappropriate,” Maxwell said. “It was unauthorized.”

She said she did not know the potential penalties for the violation.

Military regulations say personnel should avoid implying Department of Defense sponsorship or endorsement of any “political candidate, campaign or cause.”

Some motorists said they were alarmed by military units flying the flag of a national leader rather than the country, which they said is reminiscent of a fascist government or banana republic.

Others noted that Trump is now the commander in chief, not a political candidate, and they saw nothing wrong with service members supporting him. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

[oberliner]

48. That's the last place he should be

What possible input could he have provided?

[joshcryer]

49. He could have ordered them to retreat immediately.

As soon as they discovered that they were heard coming in.

Instead it appears that the raid continued without direction and two Americans died because of it.

[oberliner]

50. Couldn't Mattis have given that order?

One would think he would be more equipped to make that judgement than Trump.

[joshcryer]

52. Yeah, he should've.

But they're under pressure by this high energy coked up fuckhead to "perform." Look at when Spicer came out and bitched about crowed sizes like a crazy person. That was straight from The Donald.

So you're Mattis, you've been ordered to "get it done," and you are in the situation room. You get intercepts that the helicopters were heard. Snap decision. Cancel it, disappoint dear leader, or go for it and hope for the best.

I think Mattis was pressured to go ahead with it and wasn't thinking objectively.

[Tanuki]

56. Mattis was swanning at the fancy Alfalfa Dinner (where Ivanka wore her infamous

aluminum foil-inspired frock) while the mission was going down.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/politics/us-raid-yemen/

..."Secretary of Defense James Mattis was attending the Alfalfa Dinner, an elite social gathering in Washington, at the time of the raid and was informed that the US had suffered casualties during the operation. Mattis left the event to help address the situation.".....

[oberliner]

57. Interesting

Jeez, imagine the field day the other side would've had with this tragedy if it had been HRC's administration.

[Blue_true]

60. Mattis apparently only showed up after the Seals

Were down and things were blowing up, per accounts.

[Blue_true]

59. He could have ordered an abort when the Seals

Intercepted transmissions that their surprise raid was compromised.

[AgadorSparticus]

51. That is unbelievable. The hypocrisy on the right is overwhelming.

[tanyev]

54. WHERE ARE THE CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS????

[Gothmog]

55. Trump was busy watching Fox and CNN

[Tanuki]

58. And chatting on the phone with his boss, Vladimir Putin

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/29/512268735/trump-speaks-with-putin-in-50-minute-phone-call