Rachel: Trump callous treatment of Green Berets is diversion from what really happened in Niger

[Amaryllis]

Rachel says Trump does not want to talk about what happened in Niger - all kinds of unanswered questions and he won't go there. This callousness with gold star families she says is a diversion from that. SHe gave other examples of how he is an expert of diversion, which we already knew, but she is raising a lot of questions about this that I haven't heard others asking yet.

[Kingofalldems]

1. Something very strange about the whole incident.

It will come to light soon I bet.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Niger hearings anyone?

[PJMcK]

4. Why not?

How many Benghazi hearings were there?

[SummerSnow]

13. 486,236,000 . Well it seems like it

[Alice11111]

30. Yes.Let the Repubs turn themselves inside out explaining.

[Thinkingabout]

3. I would bet the RW would not want a Benghazi type of investigation on Niger.

[trueblue2007]

5. NIGER ? what the heck was our military doing there. 4 dead soldiers. THIS IS TRUMP'S BENGHAZI.

[GusBob]

9. The troops have been there since 2015 training forces against ISIS

There are about 1000 in the region now

They will try and pin this on Obama

[Baconator]

22. Before that actually...

Boko Haram and some other stuff...

[malaise]

40. Huh?

Niger not Nigeria

[Baconator]

41. They poke around the Chad, Niger, Nigeria border...

Assholes shot at me and I'm quite confident as to which side I was on.

[bdamomma]

6. But there have been

incidences of soldiers getting killed under strange circumstances what about those naval personnel that were killed doing war game exercises off was it the south china sea. the ship collided with another.

[Kingofalldems]

7. Lawrence Tribe also:

Link to tweet

[Lucinda]

17. TY!

[Baconator]

23. People are desparate to turn this into a Benghazi to 'get back'...

... but until something comes up they just look like idiots. The fact that Soldiers died is not enough in itself.

The Niger FID mission, among many others in Africa, is publicly known, legal and long established.

[Alice11111]

31. Thanks for speaking out.

[Solly Mack]

8. K&R

[Dawson Leery]

10. A Democratic House in 2018 must investigate this.

Without question, we must investigate why American Assets were there.

[Baconator]

24. Damn it... Because Bush and Obama and their various secretaries decided it was important...

... and Trump kept it going.

This is black helicopter OGA tin foil shit.

It's just a fucking FID mission and I'll have words with anyone who wants to politicize these deaths just to take jabs at Trump. There's plenty for us to go after and until I see evidence otherwise I'll treat it as such.

[onit2day]

25. Sure, Like when Pelosi refused to impeach Bush

Or Obama declined to hold Bush/Cheney accountable for war crimes. I wouldn't hold my breath

[GusBob]

11. He didn't want to admit to a successful ISIS attack

Goes against his "so-tired-of-winning" ego

I think in the coming days the distraction will turn to : blame ISIS

[SergeStorms]

29. According to Trump he single handedly....

defeated Isis by himself. He actually believes this!

Trump's quote from yesterday's presser: "I totally changed rules of engagement. I totally changed our military, I totally changed the attitudes of the military and they have done a fantastic job," Trump said on "The Chris Plante Show." "ISIS is now giving up, they are giving up, there are raising their hands, they are walking off. Nobody has ever seen that before."

When asked what the difference was now, "Well, Donald Trump is President".

It doesn't look as if ISIS is throwing up their hands in surrender just yet, Donnie Dim-Wit. What an asshole.

[Alice11111]

32. His VERY ignorant base believes him.

[KelleyKramer]

37. who cares about his stupid base, 70% don't believe him

[Alice11111]

43. I care because they elected him Prez, with help from his friends.

[smirkymonkey]

12. This is the republican Benghazi.

LOCK HIM UP!

[Baconator]

26. That's just ignorant...

I'll bite... Why is that exactly? Same continent?

[smirkymonkey]

36. No, same ineptitude on the part of the republicans for

preventing it. What IS your problem? Not that I think it was the fault of the democrats for Benghazi, but they do.

[smirkymonkey]

38. Also, I am not the only person to have made the comparison.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/356114-dem-lawmaker-deaths-of-soldiers-in-niger-is-trumps-benghazi

http://www.newsweek.com/niger-trumps-benghazi-four-us-soldiers-died-and-it-took-him-12-days-respond-688082

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/US-Rep-Fiercely-Defends-Statement-Calls-Trump-Liar-and-Niger-Attack-His-Begnz-451494353.html

https://www.salon.com/2017/10/11/trumps-benghazi-ambush-of-u-s-soldiers-in-niger-goes-unnoticed/

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/deadly-ambush-in-niger-could-be-trumps-benghazi-democrat-frederica-wilson/article/2637848

Care to explain what is "ignorant" about it?

[Baconator]

42. There is a difference between...

... the delay in public response and his outreach to the families.

That was fucked up.

Benghazi got so much traction because State was asking for security resources that didn't make it, plus the drama that came during the attack plus the torture and death of Ambassador Stevens.

In short, there were things to point at in the top tiers of State, DoD and the administration to say "Hey, Why didn't you give X support"

What is the equivalent based on what happened in Niger? The fact they were there is not enough. We've been running that mission for years during the Obama administration as well.

Lack of support in Africa is a reality. Air, medical, fires etc... It's all much farther away than we are used to for those of us who grew up in Afghanistan and Iraq.

[Takket]

14. NYT article from October 10th

Sounds like the soldiers were sent out without adequate medical backup and the FRENCH had to come rescue the survivors....


WHY WAS DRUMPF not aware of this problem and why did he do nothing to fix it? Isn't he keeping track of our deployments? Isn't he asking questions about our status? Isn't he asking if they have everything they need? These soldiers did NOT

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/world/africa/niger-attack-american-military-medical-evacuations.html

sorry i can't post a snip, can't copy and paste from the site for some reason

[ornotna]

20. He's keeping track of his portfolio

He hasn't got time for us regular schmoes.

[Alice11111]

33. Yep. Don Jr. Keeps him informed with dark sunglasses,

To protect that blind trust.

[Achilleaze]

15. The Republican draft dodger in chief is dodging the truth

Once again. And of course the rest of the Republicans are just fine with all of these lies. Deplorable.

[BigmanPigman]

16. As I was listening to her I wrote a new post-it...

Distraction is now Diversion.

[Skittles]

18. he does NOT intentionally DISTRACT

HE IS A FUCKING MORON

[Alice11111]

34. It's both.

[JI7]

35. agree, but it does appear there is something suspicious about what happened

.

[longship]

19. And yet another unforced error by this White House.

When the Monday Rose Garden conference happened, he wasn't even asked about Drumpf's response, or lack thereof, on military deaths. Yet he volunteered that President Obama never contacted military families, a complete and utter lie.

Thus, yet another unforced error by this incompetent White House.

[mulsh]

21. Boko Haram have been very active in Niger, as has DAESH/ISSI. Here's a handy on line terrorist

activity mapping site that appears to be reasonably up to date. Surprisingly enough the CIA World
has a wealth of information about terrorism in North Africa too.

Perhaps the permanent, professional people in the National Security offices don't want to broadcast too much joint anti-terrorism activity.

[link:https://storymaps.esri.com/stories/terrorist-attacks/|

[link:https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/|

Of course none of this excused that pathetic loser donny and his abject lack of empathy. loser. sad.

[UCmeNdc]

27. Was the mission so poorly planned and executed that Trump is afraid to

Talk about it? Something went wrong here and the Trump administration is afraid to admit it.

[bluepen]

28. I dont watch that show but thats a dumb theory.

The story of these four soldiers was about to fade away from what little coverage it got in the first place. By responding to the accusation about what he said, all Trump did was bring more attention to what happened in Niger. The story was going away no matter what that member of Congress said.

[madokie]

39. Rachel is awesome

No one else out there like her. All she does is report the truth and the bad boys of government think she's giving them hell