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catbyte

(34,447 posts)
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 04:30 PM Sep 2018

President Trump and aides caught on tape laughing about Niger terrorist ambush



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.
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President Trump and aides caught on tape laughing about Niger terrorist ambush (Original Post) catbyte Sep 2018 OP
No bigger coward alive now or in history. Eliot Rosewater Sep 2018 #1
Disgusting gordianot Sep 2018 #2
Deplorably Real. GeorgeGist Sep 2018 #3
All the more disgusting in that Trump's placing Hortensis Sep 2018 #4
trump IS a vile, dispicable, asshole,.. Captain Stern Sep 2018 #5
When my dad was still around, he used to watch Fox News, ginnyinWI Sep 2018 #6
At least he's not an anti American sonofabitch who takes a solemn knee in peaceful protest. NightWatcher Sep 2018 #7

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. All the more disgusting in that Trump's placing
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 05:22 PM
Sep 2018

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was helping control these areas overrun with violent militias where our people were operating, but their assistance was withdrawn as a response to Trump's despicable, dishonorable, economically hurtful, and profoundly insulting slap at them.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)
5. trump IS a vile, dispicable, asshole,..
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 05:47 PM
Sep 2018

...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 it’s a rough business. I wouldn’t, I don’t think I’d want to be a terrorist right now,” Trump said, prompting guffaws from the staffers in the room. “It’s not a good life…The reason they’re there, is because we forced them out, and it’s not nearly as many, it’s not nearly as intense, but it’s pretty intense, you see that happening. So that’s 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)
6. When my dad was still around, he used to watch Fox News,
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 05:56 PM
Sep 2018

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)
7. At least he's not an anti American sonofabitch who takes a solemn knee in peaceful protest.
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 06:24 PM
Sep 2018

Repukes have no soul. In years past, this would've been enough to have a president removed.

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