Trump Twitter Account Video Reveals Covert US Navy Seal Deployment During Iraq Visit

[kpete]

oh. my. god. Trump posted a video to his Twitter account after leaving Iraq -- and in doing so, he gave up the location and identities of SEAL Time Five members who are deployed on a covert special ops mission.

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DONALD TRUMP TWITTER ACCOUNT VIDEO REVEALS COVERT U.S. NAVY SEAL DEPLOYMENT DURING IRAQ VISIT


President Donald Trump and the White House communications team revealed that a U.S. Navy SEAL team was deployed to Iraq after the president secretly traveled to the region to meet with American forces serving in a combat zone for the first time since being elected to office.

While the commander-in-chief can declassify information, usually the presence of a special operations unit, to include, showing their faces would not be revealed to the American public, especially while the U.S. service members were still deployed. Current and former Defense Department officials told Newsweek that the information is almost always classified and is a violation of operational security.

Trump flew to Iraq late Christmas Day after facing a barrage of negative headlines over the holiday season amid a partial government shutdown. The president and first lady Melania Trump posed for pictures with U.S. service members at al-Asad air base in Iraq.

After Trump left Iraqi airspace, the president posted a video to his Twitter account of his time spent with American forces during his visit to Iraq. Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” plays over the video and shows the president and the first lady posing for pictures with service members that appear to be from SEAL Team Five. The special warfare operators are dressed in full battle gear and wearing night vision goggles.

The video cuts to team members shaking the president’s hand before cutting to other special operations personnel and support troops.


https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-navy-seal-iraq-video-1272102

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[RockRaven]

1. Jesus. Christ. Can. You. Imagine. Repuke. Response. If. Obama. Did. This.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Or any other POTUS in our history!

[sakabatou]

2. WTF?!

[Miles Archer]

3. Ari Melber ran a segment earlier today, "Nothing Matters"

Basically ran the gamut of political analysis and Trump getting away with everything, with the response being "nothing matters."

It's inconceivable that a president would get away with something like this.

My prediction is that he'll get away with it.

Hopefully the incoming House Dems will reverse the trend.

The big story the media is swooning over today, however, is Trump and Melanie visiting the troops.

Absolutely disgusting.

[not fooled]

12. Geez

any mention of the NYT story confirming that there never were any bone spurs, i.e. he lied to get out of the draft? Seems relevant.

[Miles Archer]

17. He went to visit the troops almost immediately after that story came out

He's a fan of waving shiny objects in front of the faithful to diffuse negative press.

That may have simply been his latest shiny obkect.

[dhill926]

4. fucking idiot....

and asshole of course....

[Cha]

6. Come ON, M$$$$$M.. Is That Fucking NORMAL?

[Volaris]

7. Joe and Mika will bitch about this tomorrow morning,

But won't so much as dare a republican senator to comment, let alone start calling them to task for the malfeasance of not holding him to account.

[LudwigPastorius]

8. As long as he can score a point with his 'walking-brainstems' base, he doesn't really...

give a shit about things like the safety of the troops or national security.

[Takket]

9. oy vey

[ffr]

10. Heads up MIL personnel, in Karl Rove's words you're fair game.

Conservatives are masters at outing our personnel for political expedience.

It's crazy!

[IronLionZion]

11. But her emails!

[McCamy Taylor]

13. Trump is praying for American deaths so he can get a war to distract the public.

[dlk]

14. Trump Did it On Purpose-Was it at Putin's Request?

He is a traitor!

[citizen blues]

15. OMG! Can somebody please shut down the King Louis's Twitter?!?!?!?!

#nationalsecurity #puppetpresident

[Fuzzpope]

16. Omfg

This fucking person, I'm going to turn bright fucking green with the hatred I carry inside of him.

God help us all.

[DesertRat]

18. They WERE deployed on a covert ops mission

OMG Individual-1 is the biggest threat to our national security.

[onethatcares]

19. donnie got a chubbie

and melanomia got to stand next to real men.

she always gets that smile when that happens.

[Vinca]

20. He probably thought that from a casting perspective they looked the most like G.I. Joe.

Look for them in a campaign commercial. The whole trip was a photo op. It's the last place in the world Don wanted to be.