The whole situation surrounding the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a rather uncomfortable and disgusting one. Not that we’re not all thrilled that one less sorry excuse for a human being is roaming the Earth, but the way that Donald Trump handled the matter as the leader of this nation was honestly pretty damn sickening.
To him, it was more so a competition with Obama (much like everything else in his life is) rather than a success story for our brave servicemen and women. Trump immaturely teased at the news the night before with a tweet claiming “something big just happened” and quickly took all of the credit for the successful raid first thing the next morning, not even mentioning the military personnel that actually conducted the raid until after he had thanked himself and Russia.
And he quickly just got worse — bragging that his kill was bigger and better than Obama’s, even though he literally denounced his predecessor when Bin Laden was killed and called on Americans to not give their praises to him, but rather to the military personnel involved. He proceeded to get busted faking a photograph of himself and members of his administration watching the raid “live” and was soon outed by military officials who said that Trump actually harmed the operation when he pulled our troops out of the Syria/Turkey border.
But perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this whole ordeal was the way in which Trump described the death of the ISIS leader as “whimpering and crying and screaming” in his last moments — a claim that’s looking like it’s completely unfounded.
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Now, I’m not complaining that the man died without dignity. But it struck me as odd and skeevy that the leader of our nation would take such pleasure in such a grim description.
But now Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley has revealed that he doesn’t even know where Donald got that particular information from.
Speaking with reporters today Milley stated, “I know the President had planned to talk down to the unit and unit members, but I don’t know what the source of that was. But I assume it was talking directly to unit members.”
“You haven’t talked to any unit members who described that to you?” one journalist questioned.
“I have not talked to unit members, no, that’s correct,” Milley responded. “I’ve talked to the commanders and CENTCOM, but not down to the members.”
Again, the man deserved to die, in whatever way he did. But for a sitting US president to make up details as gory as he can to make his kill sound better than the last guy’s… That’s just sickening.
You can watch the clip here:
Gen. Mark A. Milley on Trump’s claim that ISIS leader was “whimpering and crying” before his death: “I don’t know what the source of that was.” pic.twitter.com/DVDuG7DdLY
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 28, 2019
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