As SEALs Fought For Their Lives, Trumps Account Sent And Deleted A TV Tweet

[workinclasszero]

As SEALs Fought For Their Lives, Trump’s Account Sent And Deleted A TV Tweet
The 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.

It’s 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 Trump’s 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 isn’t saying. Likewise, it’s 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]

1. Mattis was at the Alfalfa Club.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8585955

[workinclasszero]

4. Wow! Unreal!

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]

2. Don the Con has never put in a real day's work in his life.

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. The TV media's silence is deafening

Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. They only come to life when Trump attacks THEM.

[Hortensis]

6. Many written media still do important investigative journalism.

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]

7. I know that.

And I was only referring to the hypocritical squawkers!

[Hortensis]

8. Sorry. My button got pushed and I did miss that

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]

9. No problem! It is hard not to lose one's shit over what's happening!

[Hortensis]

10. Yes! That's it exactly.

[heaven05]

11. during his campaign

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]

13. How can Trump

get away with this shit!?

[Fast Walker 52]

12. as always-- IOKIYAR!!!

[Mc Mike]

14. That's draft dodger donnie for ya. Rec, nt.

[Cha]

15. How's the military liking their cic by now?