Donald Trump Twitter account video reveals covert U.S.Navy Seal Deployment

[brooklynite]

Source: Newsweek

resident 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.

The clandestine trip came a week after Trump ordered the Pentagon to begin planning the withdraw roughly 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria and around 7,000 from Afghanistan over the next few months. The abrupt decision prompted the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who disagreed with the drawdown.


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

[Gothmog]

1. Trump does not believe in secrets

[wcmagumba]

2. Unless it is his taxes...

but hopefully we will know more about them soon....

[Harker]

3. Unless they are about his own villainous doings.

It's Rudy's job to reveal those.

[Lindsay]

4. Whatever matters to him personally

he will keep secret.

Otherwise, he's not interested and doesn't care if he reveals things the rest of us would consider matters of national security.

(And the Republican party is apparently good with that.)

[Rhiannon12866]

6. He has no clue what's going on, how things are done and has no interest in knowing

And that is dangerous for all of us, especially for those who place themselves in harm's way to protect this country. And those Republicans who still support him are complicit.

[IronLionZion]

5. He wants us to know he supports the troops

in case anyone had any doubts.

I hope he didn't get any of them killed because of this.

[ffr]

7. Where are the paper war hawks over at Fox Noise? They'd be up in arms 24/7 if Obama did this

Nothing but crickets.

[pangaia]

8. I love your copy and paste 'typo' ---- "resident Donald Trump and the White House"

Leave it.

[uppityperson]

9. Wtf

[FirstLight]

10. AYFKM?

This man is a danger to our troops!!! TRAITOR!!!!!

On the one hand you could think it is his stupidity, on the other, he's giving information to our enemies! (*cough* Putin)

[Cha]

11. KR!

[WhiteHat]

12. OK, so that means our Kurd allies are about to die.

They're already preparing to die, digging in (hopelessly) against Turkish attacks. As of yesterday's announcement from The President of the US, our (suddenly, apparently) our now-former allies are dead meat, only counting the days.

THIS is American policy? THIS is truth, justice, and the American way?

Excuse me while I puke over Trump's future grave.

[Fuzzpope]

13. Every face

In that video is now a high profile target.

Good job, fucking idiot.

[not fooled]

14. How does ANYONE in the US

still support this moron? (excepting of course money hoarding, polluting billionaires and members of a few crackpot constituencies, whose support for the moron is still getting them something)

[Achilleaze]

15. A five-time republican draft dodger has no business messing with our military

but the republicans and russians seem to think it's just fine...