Trump Rips Into 'Ungrateful TRAITOR' Chelsea Manning 14 Minutes After Fox News Segment

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite

by J.D. Durkin 7:02 am, January 26th, 2017

By now, it is a sure-fire bet that when President Donald J. Trump awakens in the early morning hours and sends out another seemingly unprovoked Tweet, it likely comes in response to a segment he just finished watching on cable news.

And sure enough, the subject of his newest tirade Chelsea Manning was heavily featured on Fox News just fourteen minutes before the Commander in Chief slammed the disgraced Army private. On Fox & Friends First Thursday, anchor Abby Huntsman led off a segment at 5:50 a.m. EST saying:

[div class"excerpt"]Chelsea Manning sounding less than grateful to President Obama for cutting nearly twenty-five years off of her sentence for leaking unclassified information. In a new article for The Guardian, the disgraced former Army private is slamming President Obama as a weak leader with few permanent accomplishments.

Sure enough, at 6:04 a.m. EST, our nations 45th President fired off his own response to Mannings Guardian op-ed from his Android device, of course using much of the same exact language that Huntsman had read from her Fox News teleprompter just moments before. Even the phrase ungrateful traitor comes DIRECTLY from the Fox News chyron emblazoned on the screen.

Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump

Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison, is now calling President Obama a weak leader. Terrible!

6:04 AM - 26 Jan 2017
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[PatrickforO]

1. WHAT does Manning have to be grateful FOR?????

Being prosecuted for releasing information that should have been public in the first place?

Being thrown into prison?

Being humiliated for who she is?

[karynnj]

13. No, raw intelligence State Department cables should not have been public in the first place

There public release caused trouble for the US government, because it led to many countries knowing people who were willing to speak to US diplomats about their country. In addition, because it was RAW information -- many things that would never have been given credibility were out there as "from a secret US cable".

One interesting observation was that when the stuff came out in the first term, the Boston Globe concentrated on what was shown about their senator. Their summary was that the things that Kerry was said to have said privately were consistent to things he said publicly. That might hint at why Kerry was so respected by his peers - both in the Senate and as Secretary of State.

As to "being thrown into prison", she was a US soldier and she released a huge quantity of classified information. This is illegal and she was tried and convicted in a military trial. President Obama showed mercy in giving her an early release. She is a very troubled person.

[cstanleytech]

24. Agree completely. nt

[Thrill]

17. Being released. He could have let her stay in there

How about that? I don't agree with her insulting President Obama.

[alarimer]

2. Can Trump undo the sentence commutation?

I wouldn't put it past him not to release Manning on May 17, regardless of Obama's order.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. THAT would call up an army of lawyers

That's not like an executive order

That's a well-established Constitutional power with centuries of precedent

I don't see how any attempt to overturn would stand up in court, in any court really

[Calista241]

21. No. The presidential power to commute and pardon is absolute.

And Double Jeopardy laws prevent Manning from being prosecuted again.

[alarimer]

22. Good.

I'd forgotten. But I wouldn't put it past Trump to try.

[cstanleytech]

25. I would be a bit concerned though about other charges that they might have chosen not to pursue at

the time especially considering how petty Trump is.

[vlyons]

3. Great! Another Trump Distraction

for the media to get all in a dither about. Stay focused people! Stay focused on electing progressives at local and state levels.

[Scalded Nun]

10. Absolutely!

If inroads are not made at state and local levels this will never go away.

[Achilleaze]

4. Comrade Casino (IKGOPR*) getting all pissy again

* Illegitimate KGOP Regime, Inc.

[GusBob]

5. who cares what the opinion, the fact that he bases it on a television program is alarming

lord

[Laf.La.Dem.]

7. Why do you need the CIA -

when you have FOX news!!

[madaboutharry]

8. But wait, isn't that what Trump has said about President Obama?

Manning agrees with him!

Trump can't stay on message.

[Sunlei]

9. Chelsea Manning should sue the crap out of fox & trump for linking this harrassment on government

official website.

[icymist]

11. It's amazing that Faux news is telling this President what to say.

Besides, the article clearly states that Manning is critical, not ungrateful. Faux news says that and then orange julius there repeats it.

[global1]

14. The Trumpchurian Candidate.....

and Fox News is the trigger.

Somebody should go back and review all of Trump's tweats and then review Fox News and see what else matches up.

[bhikkhu]

12. Link to the guardian article:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/25/compromise-doesnt-work-political-opponents-chelsea-manning

I just read it quickly, but it seems to be well thought, and not as portrayed by fox or trump.

[Blue Idaho]

15. This just in - Trump wants to TORTURE people

He doesn't like. He wants to violate national,and international law and torture people he thinks are HIS enemies.

Ignore his distractions - focus on his extra-legal statements and actions.

[ProfessorPlum]

16. In that article, CM rips the president for compromising

and Obama's political opponents for not compromising.

it's pretty hard to argue with that. And also easy to see that CM is right.

Stuff it, Trump

[Me.]

18. How About CM JUst Being Grateful To Not Spending Decades More In Jail

and shut the hell up.

[Initech]

19. Someone really needs to take Fox News away from him!

[2naSalit]

20. But that's the great wave

of fecal matter upon which he came careening into town.

[pbmus]

27. ++++++++++++11111111

[unblock]

23. Ah, so now donnie's praising Obama as a strong leader!

[VMA131Marine]

30. That's what it sounds like to me ....

Even a broken clock is right twice per day ...

[The_Casual_Observer]

26. Let's hope Fox and Friends doesn't encourage him to Nuke anybody.

[dembotoz]

28. shows again obama was correct

[Adrahil]

29. Fortunately for her, Obama is a better human being than she is. NT

[bdamomma]

31. again tRump is tweeting

out another distraction and the media leaps at it.

Look here...................look at that shiny thing.

[GliderGuider]

32. I hope Chelsea is taking full precautions to protect her life.

There are dark actors out there...