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"ALLEGEDLY," Mad Dog got Trump to approve Yemen raid by saying "Obama wouldn't be that bold."
White House leak allegedly reveals how staff manipulated Trump to get him to approve failed Yemen raid
According to the Independent, an anonymous staffer leaked that the way military leaders were able to urge Trump to act on the failed Yemen raid was by telling him Obama didn’t 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 Trump 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 Trump taking over but Obama advisors didn’t 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 action’s objective, which was to kill its alleged target, al Qaeda leader Qassim al Rimi.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/white-house-leak-reveals-how-staff-manipulated-trump-to-get-him-to-approve-failed-yemen-raid/
According to the Independent, an anonymous staffer leaked that the way military leaders were able to urge Trump to act on the failed Yemen raid was by telling him Obama didn’t 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 Trump 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 Trump taking over but Obama advisors didn’t 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 action’s objective, which was to kill its alleged target, al Qaeda leader Qassim al Rimi.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/white-house-leak-reveals-how-staff-manipulated-trump-to-get-him-to-approve-failed-yemen-raid/