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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Trump and aides caught on tape laughing about Niger terrorist ambush
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President Trump and aides caught on tape laughing about Niger terrorist ambush that left four U.S. soldiers dead https://nydn.us/2CS3Sjx
4:24 PM - Sep 10, 2018
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What a vile, despicable, worthless asshole.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)gordianot
(15,243 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)our ally Chad on the Muslim ban likely contributed to this attack. Chad's military was helping control these areas overrun with violent militias where our people were operating, but their assistance was withdrawn as a response to Trump's despicable, dishonorable, economically hurtful, and profoundly insulting slap at them.
Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)...but the whole spin on this is lame.
He wasn't laughing about our soldiers being killed.
Here's what the article quotes him as saying:
So its a rough business. I wouldnt, I dont think Id want to be a terrorist right now, Trump said, prompting guffaws from the staffers in the room. Its not a good life
The reason theyre there, is because we forced them out, and its not nearly as many, its not nearly as intense, but its pretty intense, you see that happening. So thats that.
I don't get why anybody feels there's a need to spin things in a way to make this moron look bad. There's just no need for it. You can actually just quote him verbatim, and completely in context, and that exposes him.
When we start making shit up, and/or taking things out of context, it doesn't make him look worse...it makes us look worse.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)then he'd be an expert on something they had talked about. He'd go on and on just like Trumpie. On the side of the right and against anything to do with the left. Fox was the only thing he'd watch.
If only this guy wasn't President, he'd be just like my 82-year-old dad, wrong but doing no harm to anything except his own blood pressure.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Repukes have no soul. In years past, this would've been enough to have a president removed.