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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts) Mon Sep 10, 2018, 07:27 PM Sep 2018

Trump caught cracking joke about terrorists while discussing Niger ambush where four U.S. died

President Trump drew laughs from some of his aides as he joked about what a “rough business” terrorism is while discussing an ambush in Niger that left four U.S. soldiers dead last year, according to the latest secret recording released Monday.

Trump made the comments during a closed-door meeting at the White House in the wake of the Oct. 4, 2017, attack on the U.S. Special Forces, who were advising local troops fighting Islamic extremists in the African nation.

Former White House communications aide Omarosa Manigault Newman secretly recorded the conversation and provided a tape of it to MSNBC on Monday afternoon.

The President can be heard on the tape telling his aides the U.S. and Nigerien troops “got attacked by 50 real fighters,”
who he claimed were in Africa because the American military had chased them out of the Middle East.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-trump-tape-niger-ambush-soldiers-20180910-story.html

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Trump caught cracking joke about terrorists while discussing Niger ambush where four U.S. died (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Sep 2018 OP

He doesn't know when to shut-up sakabatou Sep 2018 #1

According to Omarosa, there were "very junior staffers" in the room madaboutharry Sep 2018 #2

He was making fun of isis not our troops dembotoz Sep 2018 #3

Jesus...what a sick, infantile pos of a person... Docreed2003 Sep 2018 #4

Then he sent Mike Pence to Dover Air Force Base when the bodies were returned Brother Buzz Sep 2018 #5

Typical trump stuff mucifer Sep 2018 #6

sakabatou

(42,172 posts)

1. He doesn't know when to shut-up

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Mon Sep 10, 2018, 07:28 PM

Sep 2018

madaboutharry

(40,219 posts)

2. According to Omarosa, there were "very junior staffers" in the room

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 07:30 PM

Sep 2018

who did not have the security clearance to hear that level of intel.

Trump has zero self-discipline and is a blabbermouth. He blabs to make himself feel important. One can only imagine what he is telling the Russians.