Trump Blames SEALs Death On Military: They Lost Ryan

[DesertRat]

This from the Commander in Chief! Fuck Trump!

President Donald Trump on Tuesday dodged responsibility for a botched mission he ordered in Yemen last month, placing the onus on the military and Barack Obama’s administration instead.

Bill Owens, the father of Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, the Navy SEAL who died in the operation, demanded an investigation into his son’s death over the weekend. Owens further revealed he couldn’t bear to meet Trump at the airport as Ryan’s casket was carried off the military plane last month.

Asked about the matter during an interview with Fox News’ “Fox ‘n’ Friends,” Trump repeatedly said “they” were responsible for the outcome of the mission, in reference to the military.

“This was a mission that was started before I got here. This was something they wanted to do,” he said. “They came to me, they explained what they wanted to do ― the generals ― who are very respected, my generals are the most respected that we’ve had in many decades, I believe. And they lost Ryan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ryan-owens-seal-raid_us_58b58852e4b0780bac2d58c6

[Botany]

1. He lies as easy as he breaths

Both the Obama administration and the Pentagon had rejected
that mission as too risky but did that stop Trump from saying
that "this mission was underway before my administration?"
(rough Trump quote from this AM's Fox Morning Crap)

And the mission was compromised too. The bad guys knew we were coming and
we had a chance to pull out but Trump was not in the oval office or in the White House
situation room or the pentagon to give that order but instead he was in his bedroom
tweeting about an upcoming t.v. spot he was going to be on as he was watching Fox News.

No doubt Trey Gowdy will hold hearings into this failed mission.

[DesertRat]

3. "I like people who weren't captured"

How can he maintain any support from the military?!

[Botany]

15. How can any military person or anybody for that matter support him?

Trump or his people let somebody take a selfie with the military officer
who carries the nuclear launch codes ...... are you kidding me? The response
to that act should have been anything up to the use of lethal force. We are
talking about the possible end of the world here.

[Alice11111]

30. Keystone cops, but a death squad

Only on a bad C movie. Couldn’t really happen?%$%,??

[Botany]

34. All Presidents from Truman on have treated nuclear weapons and talk about them ....

... with the utmost care. Trump really might get us all killed.

2/17/17

Speaking during a press conference on Thursday, the US President revealed there would
be a “nuclear holocaust would be like no other.”

A random person was posing with the nuclear officer who carries the launch codes
for WW III. I still can't rap my head around that. Where was the secret service or
military security?

[Alice11111]

38. Yeah, it's like they wre invaded by the body snatchers

[yallerdawg]

2. "They lost Ryan."

Is this what his base has been waiting to hear out of Washington?

They say he has a floor at 40% approval.

I don't think we have seen that floor yet.

[DesertRat]

6. Statements like this need to get out to his base

This will upset many Trump supporters if we can get it on their radar.

[Alice11111]

32. Break thru fox and jones fake news...unlikely. Addicted

To by the Trumpsters. No real, undistorted news allowed. Wish we still had walter cronkite the nightly news

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. 38% as of yesterday. n/t

[oasis]

4. "They lost Ryan". I expect a response from Ryan's father very soon.nt

[DesertRat]

7. I hope so.

[yallerdawg]

16. This was televised on "Fox and Friends," the BEST NEWS.

The president in the Fox News interview on Tuesday went after Arizona Sen. John McCain for his criticism of the Yemen mission.

“I felt badly when a young man dies, and John McCain said that was a failed mission,” Trump said. “I thought it was inappropriate that he goes to foreign soil and he criticizes our government.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-responds-father-navy-seal-killed-yemen-raid/story?id=45798999

[onenote]

5. The buck stops everywhere else.

He really should have that on a sign on his desk.

[asiliveandbreathe]

8. The Narcissist is Never Wrong. - Now investigate as Mr. Owens has

requested....I am totally disgusted by ALL republicans....our congress has no clothes..

..I really am focusing on their behavior...considering they now have put Wilber in Commerce...can you say Bank Of Cyprus...trump this, trump that..he is a buffoon and the republican congress is getting away with redrum.....

[The Polack MSgt]

9. Hey fuckboy

You are the COMMANDER.

Even if this wasn't your FAULT it is for damn sure your PROBLEM to address.

PS. It was your fault and we all know it

[VancouverDem]

10. President Bannon is inciting a coup

[Fast Walker 52]

33. welcome to DU!!!

[kairos12]

11. Commander In Chief. What a joke. He is vile.

[VMA131Marine]

12. This would be like if JFK had blamed Nixon for the Bay of Pigs

Calling Trump a pig is an insult to pigs.

[delisen]

13. Despicable. Refusal to take Responsibility

[BeyondGeography]

14. Trump: "There is no team in I."

[DinahMoeHum]

17. "My generals" ??????????

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Before the election, when asked how he was going to counter his lack of foreign experience he

replied that he knows generals.

So, we now see the outcome of his method.

[DesertRat]

22. That stood out to me too

He's an asshole.

[JudyM]

18. I assume this means he won't take credit for the successful drone strike against Al Qaeda yesterday

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/27/us-drone-strike-in-syria-kills-top-al-qaida-leader-jihadis-say

[CrispyQ]

26. "If it's good, I did it. If it's bad, someone else did it."

I'm still just flummoxed how many people did not see the spoiled-child mentality of this man. Or if they did, they were okay with it in the White House. WTF?

[JudyM]

28. Shrub was reelected, that blew my mind. Those voters are out there.

[Gothmog]

20. The buck never stops with trump

[Mendocino]

21. He will never be confused with

Harry Truman.

[Thrill]

23. So the so called "mad dog" is ok with this?

[Achilleaze]

24. republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief dodges responsibility

republican Comrade Pee45 is warming up for his annual Dodge-Paying-Any-Taxes-At-All scam.

[pangaia]

27. How anybody on his secret service detail be willing to die for him defies understanding.

[Blue_true]

37. The Secret Service protects the Office of the Presidency.

Unfortunately, that dunce sits in that office now.

[pangaia]

39. I have an idea. let them protect his office.

[WhiteTara]

29. what was the name of the town?

I thought it was something like Yatra but can't find it on the google. Thanks

[luvMIdog]

31. Now all the military will know whose back he really has

[Blue_true]

35. God, what a pig. nt

[Vinca]

36. Someone explain to me why rank and file military people loved this fool so much.

He doesn't give a rat's ass about them.

[pansypoo53219]

40. the buck stops in turnip's pocket, but blame is other peoples problem.