US forces in middle ISIS leader's compound: 3:30 PM
Trump left golf course at 3:33 PM
Photo op of Trump "watching" the raid was staged at 5:05 PM
Trump was playing golf when raid to kill ISIS leader was occurring
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US forces in middle ISIS leader's compound: 3:30 PM
Trump left golf course at 3:33 PM
Photo op of Trump "watching" the raid was staged at 5:05 PM
This is the second time they tried to copy the Obama in the situation room moment too. The first time being for that utterly meaningless bombing of empty hangars in Syria forever ago.
Francesca Chambers @fran_chambersThe president says he sent his tweet last night about making a big announcement this morning for the benefit of the press "so you wouldn't be out playing golf, or tennis, or otherwise indisposed."
9:41 AM - Oct 27, 2019
Eh, of all the crap that man has pulled this is one of the least surprising. I'd rather focus on the impeachment.
I mean, the raid took a few hours, they probably took it at the conclusion.
Even by Trump's standards, I highly doubt he was out golfing while this raid was going on.
Just shows how little he respects his job. This was no doubt a hastily thrown together photo op to manufacture some kind of presidential news byte.
Too busy to monitor his attack because he's golfing with the commissioner of the MLB and Lindsay Graham.
Too busy to monitor his attack because he's golfing with the commissioner of the MLB and Lindsay Graham.
Hmm... what makes you doubt it? What has Trump ever done right to deserve the lack of doubt?
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The photography of Trump's presidency is a huge break from Obama's
Donald Trump’s presidency is not normal, and neither is the way it’s being photographed
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Obama's photographer had near unlimited access, photographing the president even in high security areas. Trump keeps his photographer at a distance. Even the famous photos of Trump with the Russians in the oval wasn't captured by the WH photog, but by the Russians.
This is why Trump will never have a humanizing, vulnerable, and strong photo of him, because he freezes everyone out, because he's an inhuman, unfeeling, weak man.
He began his statement immediately accusing others of playing golf. He's reaching Looney Tunes levels of projection.
At this rate he's going to walk around with a finger jabbed out towards the closest person; yelling that they're doing what he himself is doing that very moment.
Media reports(quoting Trump) the raid started at 5pm for starters, where is 3:30 pm coming from?
"He says he and his team were gathered in the situation room at 5pm yesterday. The lift-off started moments later. He says that there were shots fired at the US helicopters as they were travelling towards the site and that the helicopters shot back.
They conducted an on-site DNA test and brought body parts back with them. He says that positive identification of Baghdadi was made about 15 minutes later."
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Yeah, I'm guessing he was made aware of the time frame and had to leave the golf course to be directly involved.
That's probably true of any presidency. These things are basically well-oiled machines, and only on rare instances, I'd imagine, is the President actually required to be on-call to give any real oversight.
Sounds like someone jumped the gun on this one. The raid everywhere I can find says they took off from Erbil, Iraq at 5:00pm and took 1 hour 10 minutes to reach the compound.
the wires lmao
God, no one even knows where to look in this photo.
Photographer: "Just look concerned, doesn't matter in wich direction!"
They think us stupid plebs wouldn't notice that they aren't concentrating on a screen where a live raid is being transmitted.
I like how that orange wire isn't connected to anything.
the wires lmao
This post will get ignored and everyone below will say fuck trump. That's the sort of echo chamber we live in.
It's not because we hate someone that we should blindly believe everything is said about that person. Fake news doesn't only apply to people you like
Oh please give me a break here my god.
This man has pretty much lied about very goddamn thing in his life.
We have a problem with people inventing fake stories to use against Trump, especially when there is plenty of material to use against him. You harm legitimate criticism against Trump when they can point to instances like this where people post fake stories and they have verifiable information to prove its fake. Don't give them that ammo.
thats normal though. Most security boardrooms contain cat5 cables like that on the table because wireless is turned off/blocked off.
That's pretty irritating if that 3:30 time is incorrect. As others said, just gives "fake news" people more ammo.
Also he didn't tell congressional leadership, did tell Lindsey Graham and Putin claimed democrats would leak it but it leaked before his fucking tweet.
Rep John Ratcliffe was the only republican to get it right "President Trump kept his eye on the ball"
everything was Titleist.
Rep John Ratcliffe was the only republican to get it right "President Trump kept his eye on the ball"
everything was Titleist.
It's amazing how even digital cameras have a Liberal Bias, automatically detecting a heroic conservative, hating him, and mechanically adjusting its own meta-data to create fake news, just because digital technology, like colored people, sexual degenerates and Muslims, hate freedom and are jealous of America. That hatred of American freedom and justice by machines, anti-fascists, and people that care about equal rights is proof that America Is Great.
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