"According to a timeline provided by White House, then-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn briefed the president about the operation Jan. 25 over a dinner that included Vice President Mike Pence, Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and top security aides, but not in the Situation Room, as had been the common practice under previous administrations."
If the President gets the proper briefing from the people needed to make sure he has all the information he needs to approve the mission then does it matter where he gets it? So it was over dinner. By all accounts the people he needed to hear from were there. Does it matter that it wasn't in the Situation Room?
And this:
"At the time of the raid, Trump was not in the Situation Room, where he would have been directly involved in monitoring developments."
Was Obama in the Sit Room during each and every Seal raid? I doubt it. The decision had been made. The proper people were in the Situation Room during the raid. President Trump was being kept abreast of the goings on. What difference does it make that he wasn't there in person?
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I have sympathy and feel for those who lose their sons, daughters, husbands, and wives who are serving our country. But, when those parents and/or spouses then use the death of their loved one for crass political purposes as this father is, I think it is despicable and I no longer have sympathy for them. They are in effect degrading and minimizing the ultimate sacrifice their loved one made for this country.
I’m the mother of an active duty Navy Independent Duty Corpsman, the aunt of retired Navy, cousin to Air force and Marine active duty. I count dear friends among retired Marine Corps.
May his son Rest in Peace, may he receive the answers he needs and craves, and may all political game playing fail.
Honor is earned by the heroes themselves, and is non-transferable to relatives. At least that's how I view these things.
Crazy talk: “Owens, also a military veteran, was troubled by Trump’s harsh treatment of a Gold Star family during his presidential campaign.”
Yes, he was so HARSH1
I think Trump said, “I would have liked to have heard from the mother.”
BRUTAL!
Leftists and their media pets have no decency at all. They will politicize anything. Their double standards, distortions, and partisan one-sidededness are unparalleled. The intensely divergent ways in which they treat Trump vs. Obama are so extreme and blatant it’s crazy and proves the “press” totally lacks ethics. There really aren’t words to describe how much I despise our anti-American, terrorist-sympathizing propaganda media.
Pretty sorry that the grieving father is being used as a tool in this - not even aware that he dishonors what his son was doing.