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Trump dismisses criticism from Navy SEAL who led Osama bin Laden mission
The Hill ^ | 11/18/18 | Megan Keller

Posted on 11/18/2018 3:56:04 PM PST by quasimodo_79

"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace noted during a discussion with the president that William McRaven has said Trump's attacks on the media are the "greatest threat to democracy in his lifetime."

Trump in response called McRaven a "Hillary Clinton fan" and "Obama-backer."

"Wouldn’t it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that, wouldn’t it have been nice?" Trump asked. "You know, living — think of this — living in Pakistan, beautifully in Pakistan in what I guess they considered a nice mansion, I don’t know, I’ve seen nicer. But living in Pakistan right next to the military academy, everybody in Pakistan knew he was there."

"You’re not even going to give them credit for taking down bin Laden?" Wallace asked.

"They took him down but — look, look, there’s news right there, he lived in Pakistan, we’re supporting Pakistan, we’re giving them $1.3 billion a year, which we don’t give them anymore, by the way, I ended it because they don’t do anything for us, they don’t do a damn thing for us," Trump responded.

"I’m totally in favor of the media, I’m totally in favor of free press, got to be fair press," he added.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: binladenraid; chriswallace; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; foreignaid; mcraven; media; mediawingofthednc; megankeller; msm; nonplayercharacter; nonplayercharacters; npc; npcs; oblraid; pakistan; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; thehill; williammcraven
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To: max americana

UBL died early December, 2001 when we bombed the Tora Bora caves to oblivion in Afghanistan near the Paki border.

No authenticated tape of UBL, neither audio or visual was ever produced thereafter. All that was reported was grainy, blurred images with fuzzy echo chamber scratchy audio.

Since the US Navy was trying to show the utmost honor and respect for his bloody corpse with Islamic prayer and the full sacred readings, then logic follows that he would have been a land burial in the desert.

There is no protocol for a muslim burial at sea. None at all.


61 posted on 11/18/2018 6:31:31 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Trump in response called McRaven a "Hillary Clinton fan" and "Obama-backer."
The same can be said for Chris Wallace.

62 posted on 11/18/2018 6:34:07 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Third Person

Yes. The same one that died in 2002.


63 posted on 11/18/2018 6:51:18 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: advertising guy

The real Osama died in Tora bora. That is indeed correct. Why do so many freepers not know this?


64 posted on 11/18/2018 6:53:32 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Bulwyf; Third Person

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3706855/posts?page=61#61


65 posted on 11/18/2018 7:27:58 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: quasimodo_79

Chris Wallace can’t be a thick headed as he appears to be on TV, can he?

I could only take about 5 minutes of the idiot pretending to interview the President.


66 posted on 11/18/2018 8:13:12 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Wallace is one of the hardest interviewers to listen to of all.... Or to his news hours.....


67 posted on 11/18/2018 8:14:41 PM PST by caww
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To: Terry Mross
Ventura wasn’t s SEAL.

Actually, he was. At least real SEALs consider him to be amongst their fraternity.

68 posted on 11/18/2018 8:25:30 PM PST by Calvinist_Dark_Lord ((I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper))
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To: CodeToad

The scuttlebutt in the Army was Bin
Laden was a carrot on a stick. They
cast him out as bait to attract his
lesser lieutenants. Obambi collected
the coup to make himself look good.


69 posted on 11/18/2018 10:12:47 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: quasimodo_79

He was OFFERED to Clinton on a Silver Platter, and Clinton refused!!!


70 posted on 11/19/2018 2:09:51 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Godebert

THAT is in our military??? OMG!


71 posted on 11/19/2018 2:11:39 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: quasimodo_79

the raid that took out Osama bin laden was for show because a election was coming up and Barrack Obama did not want it to be a issue in the election but instead a way to say he was fighting terrorism when instead he was using his position to enable the radicle Muslim population.


72 posted on 11/19/2018 2:29:38 AM PST by PCPOET7
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To: DariusBane

Could it be because Saudi has that powerful a group within the US government?


73 posted on 11/19/2018 4:37:45 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: CodeToad

“Someone had some toys they wanted to use.”

Yep. Toys like the stealth Blackhawk of which one crashed into the compound allowing China and Russia to collect fragments of it.


74 posted on 11/19/2018 5:04:43 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: 5th MEB

In Jessica Vagina’s case he was hit in the head too many times as a shitty wrestler.


75 posted on 11/19/2018 5:06:37 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: xzins
Trump is right. We were paying Pakistan to hide Osama bin Laden.

Trump is most often right. The media hatred causes them to misreport every story, it's a joke.

76 posted on 11/19/2018 6:56:26 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: CodeToad

Exactly....and right before an election.


77 posted on 11/19/2018 6:58:13 AM PST by I got the rope
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To: xzins

I would think that must be true.


78 posted on 11/19/2018 9:33:48 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: quasimodo_79

McRaven is a traitor to this country for attacking our president.


79 posted on 11/19/2018 2:14:16 PM PST by Longdriver69
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To: quasimodo_79

I do wonder why GWB never whacked him


80 posted on 11/20/2018 9:10:12 AM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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