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As SEALs Fought For Their Lives, Trumps Account Sent And Deleted A TV TweetThe president was not in the Situation Room that evening. But his Twitter account, at least, was active.
By S.V. Date 02/22/2017 08:58 pm ET | Updated 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON ― As a team of elite U.S. commandos found themselves under unexpectedly heavy fire in a remote Yemeni village last month, eight time zones away, their commander in chief was not in the Situation Room.
Its unclear what he, personally, was doing. But his Twitter account was busy promoting an upcoming appearance on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
I will be interviewed by @TheBrodyFile on @CBNNews tonight at 11pm. Enjoy! read a tweet from President Donald Trumps personal account on Saturday, Jan. 28.
Whether it was Trump himself or an aide who sent out that tweet at 5:50 p.m. ― about half an hour into a firefight that cost a Navy SEAL his life ― cannot be determined from the actual tweets, and the White House isnt saying. Likewise, its not clear who deleted the tweet some 20 minutes later, or why the new president, just a week on the job, chose not to directly monitor the first high-risk military operation on his watch.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-yemen-raid-twitter_us_58ae0acbe4b057efdce8c07c?
deminks
(11,017 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)If this would have been a democratic president...it would be all over hate radio/fox 24/7 till the day of the elections in 2018!
This is Trump's "Benghazi" except this is REAL dereliction of duty and a horribly cavalier attitude of the so-called C-in-C tweeting while american military troops are risking their life on his orders!
The orders of a draft dodger, I might add!
CrispyQ
(36,514 posts)He has also never been held accountable for anything he says or does & he's not used to being challenged or questioned. We have a full grown, spoiled two-year-old brat in the Oval Office.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,043 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Yes, they don't meet all their responsibilities, but please don't assume that every time they don't put some inflammatory story like this on the front page it's because they're hiding it.
Unwarranted distrust of all news media is a major reason people are so ignorant and deluded these days. People don't turn to them for information. A nasty trap to wander into, the alternatives sadly being abysmal ignorance and/or propaganda-brain syndrome.
Btw, I'm not talking about TV and cable "news." Except for public broadcasting, almost all TV "news"and cable talk-tainment shows these days exist solely to generate profits and will turn regular viewers into zombie idiots.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,043 posts)And I was only referring to the hypocritical squawkers!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the comments were about TV coverage.
I mostly only know what lights the zombie screens are flashing between commercials because of what people here report. Unfortunately, DU has a lot of news addicts who still seem to think they will finally get informed if they just keep their eyes focused on the talking heads...
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,043 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)all he did was diss vets. What can be expected of a coward like him. Then the hypocrite going to talk to the family when the body of the SEAL came home. If I knew this information and it was my family member I would have spit in his face.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)get away with this shit!?