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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,972 posts) Mon Sep 10, 2018, 08:16 PM Sep 2018

Omarosa shares tape of Trump discussing deadly Niger ambush

Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on Monday released a new tape of President Trump featuring a private discussion about the deadly ambush in Niger last year that left four U.S. soldiers dead.

Manigault Newman played the tape from October 2017 on "MSNBC Live with Craig Melvin."

Trump can be heard on the tape calling the military a "rough business" and saying that the militants who carried out the ambush are "rough, too."

"They got attacked by 50 real fighters," Trump says on the tape. "These were people in many cases that were in the Middle East, that now go to Africa to try and, you know, cause problems there."

About 12 U.S. soldiers and 30 Nigerien soldiers were ambushed by about 50 militants in the October 2017 attack. In addition to the four U.S. soldiers, five Nigerien soldiers were killed.

Trump also can be heard saying on the tape that he wouldn't "want to be a terrorist right now," eliciting laughter from the staffers who were in the room.

"It's not a laughing matter," Manigault Newman said on MSNBC. "We lost four American soldiers."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/omarosa-shares-tape-of-trump-discussing-deadly-niger-ambush/ar-BBN9nom?li=BBnb7Kz

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Omarosa shares tape of Trump discussing deadly Niger ambush (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2018 OP

So much Compassion Mr.President. Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #1

The problem is that his lunatic base will eat this crap up. Bleacher Creature Sep 2018 #2

Yup eleny Sep 2018 #3

Yet stable genius kills our troops in those countries by refusing them the resources to do their job keithbvadu2 Sep 2018 #4

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

1. So much Compassion Mr.President.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 08:22 PM

Sep 2018

Oh forgot,a Narcissistic Person has no compassion.

Bleacher Creature

(11,256 posts)

2. The problem is that his lunatic base will eat this crap up.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 09:15 PM

Sep 2018

They'll probably see it as a positive.

eleny

(46,166 posts)

3. Yup

Reply to Bleacher Creature (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 09:29 PM

Sep 2018

There's red meat for the base because his dissing of one of the widows comes at a different time than this meeting with staffers. So his base won't link the two. What is O. up to with this choice? Makes me say, hmm.

keithbvadu2

(36,800 posts)

4. Yet stable genius kills our troops in those countries by refusing them the resources to do their job

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2018, 11:32 PM

Sep 2018

Yet stable genius kills our troops in those countries by refusing them the resources to do their jobs.

Too bad the CinC cannot be court martialed for dereliction of duty.

Trump says he knows more then the generals.

All that spare time playing golf when he could have been planning missions and not killing soldiers by assigning less qualified underlings to the task of mission planning.

Our military requested more resources for Niger mission(s) but the Trump administration refused them.

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-trump-niger-20171019-story.html

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