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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite House leak reveals how staff manipulated Shitgibbon to get him to approve failed Yemen raid
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/white-house-leak-reveals-how-staff-manipulated-trump-to-get-him-to-approve-failed-yemen-raid/The one way a White House staffer can get Fuckface Von Pussygrabber to do what they want is by telling him that President Barack Obama would never have done it, a new report reveals. According to the Independent, an anonymous staffer leaked that the way military leaders were able to urge Cheeto to act on the failed Yemen raid was by telling him Obama didnt want to do it.
General James Mad Dog Mattis, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, were reportedly able to persuade Donny Dumpster to move forward by claiming Obama would never have been so bold to actually go through with it. The military action was in the works for months prior to the Shitgibbon taking over but Obama advisors didnt want to do the raid until it was a moonless night.
Still, the raid was a failure in that it killed 30 civilians, one U.S. Navy Seal and failed to meet the actions objective, which was to kill its alleged target, al Qaeda leader Qassim al Rimi.
The Independent cited an NBC News report that quoted a senior US intelligence official who claimed almost everything went wrong once the raid got underway. According to the official, those in the targeted house were alerted to the presence of the soldiers and they soon came under fire.
The Pentagon claimed that they were able to obtain materials and information that is yielding valuable intelligence.
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White House leak reveals how staff manipulated Shitgibbon to get him to approve failed Yemen raid (Original Post)
fleur-de-lisa
Feb 2017
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C_U_L8R
(44,892 posts)1. Apparently
Trump is Baby Huey.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)7. Marty McFly, "Are ya chicken?"
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)2. I'm not sure that I buy this...seems more like a sideways attempt to to blame Mattis and Dunford
and take some of the pressure off Trump for the raid...even though it makes him look easily manipulated...
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)3. It's also claiming Obama had it all set up except the "moonless night".
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)4. Yep. More nonsense.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)5. Mattis is a war criminal.
I'm sorry that many here think he is the sane one. Well, relatively speaking I suppose he is. But if this story is true, he is clearly a monster.
mercuryblues
(14,491 posts)6. ok.
They got him to approve the raid by saying Obama never would have. Then after the utter failure of trump to show enough interest the results were catastrophic, Trump says Obama approved it before he left office.
Yet the media does not pick up on the opposing "facts" Both can not be true, yet both are being reported as such.