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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 02:11 PM Sep 2018

New Omarosa tape shows Trump joking about terrorists killing US troops in Niger

New Omarosa tape shows Trump joking about terrorists killing US troops in Niger

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/new-omarosa-tape-shows-trump-joking-terrorists-killing-us-troops-niger/

Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman shared a new recording with MSNBC on Monday, which features President Donald Trump discussing the attacks on U.S. troops in Niger.

In the audio, White House staff can be heard laughing as Trump jokes that “I don’t think I’d want to be a terrorist right now” despite the deaths of U.S. service members.

“They were laughing because he’s like, making light of the situation,” Manigault-Newman told MSNBC. “He’s saying, I wouldn’t want to be a terrorist and then you hear the laughter and he continues on to talk about ‘I don’t want to be in that business’ — but it is not a laughing matter. We lost four American soldiers and four of our allies.”

The troops were killed in ambush on a joint patrol in southwest Niger in October 2017. Trump faced criticism last year after telling the widow of one of the fallen soldiers that “he knew what he signed up for.”

Manigault-Newman said the recording was from shortly after the attack. She accused Trump of giving “misinformation” to his communications team.
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New Omarosa tape shows Trump joking about terrorists killing US troops in Niger (Original Post) Miles Archer Sep 2018 OP
How anyone in the military, or who is in a military family duforsure Sep 2018 #1
F___r Bush made a joke exboyfil Sep 2018 #3
Is it any wonder mercuryblues Sep 2018 #2

duforsure

(11,884 posts)
1. How anyone in the military, or who is in a military family
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 02:30 PM
Sep 2018

Can support such a coward, and a treasonous traitor to this country , who cares for no one but himself is unbelievable , and is supporting a putin puppet over the American people, which is maybe what putin and trump wants now. He'll soon make moves to install loyalist in higher positions to undermine the military to use against us with threats eventually.

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
3. F___r Bush made a joke
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 02:52 PM
Sep 2018

about looking for the WMDs (showed him in the White House looking for something). He survived that.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/26/usa.iraq

A slide showed Mr Bush in the Oval office, leaning to look under a piece of furniture. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere," he told the audience, drawing applause.

This while our soldiers were dying in Iraq.

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