Bucky wrote:I feel dirty for saying this, but that actually may be defensible. probably a 'need to know' type thing. if russian observations picked up some kind of covert activity that they couldn't identify the result might have been ugly.

Werthless wrote:

Bucky wrote:I feel dirty for saying this, but that actually may be defensible. probably a 'need to know' type thing. if russian observations picked up some kind of covert activity that they couldn't identify the result might have been ugly.

We both know that the likelihood of this being logistical, instead of political, is low.

Bucky wrote:you don't think there was a general or some other uni whispering in his ear?

thephan wrote:

Bucky wrote:you don't think there was a general or some other uni whispering in his ear?

On the golf course?

Phred wrote:Almost an entire stadium of people boo the guy and we still think that he is going to win another election?

swishnicholson wrote:

thephan wrote:

Bucky wrote:you don't think there was a general or some other uni whispering in his ear?

On the golf course?

He quite likely was watching the raid, though who knows about that awful photo

“People like Johnson [police superintendent] put criminals and illegal aliens before the citizens of Chicago, and those are his values,” Trump said. “Frankly, those values, to me, are a disgrace.”

Werthless wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:

thephan wrote:

Bucky wrote:you don't think there was a general or some other uni whispering in his ear?

On the golf course?

He quite likely was watching the raid, though who knows about that awful photo

I'm very cynical about anything coming from his mouth, but this is so far down the line in the list of things to be mad about. I don't care if he was watching the raid video live, or 1 hour later, or audio live while video was later. I do have extreme doubts that Trump understands anything to do with national security and foreign policy, and will blunder into revealing sensitive information for a cheap political win. Thus, I'd almost rather he doesn't talk about this at all, and I hope he doesn't feel pressured to reveal the actual video footage of the raid. If he does that, combined with his press conferences on the issue, he's basically created the recruitment video for ISIS.

And no, I don't think he trusts anybody to whisper in his ear and tell him how to handle intelligence distribution. That's a big part of his problem... his incompetence and naivete is paired with a giant ego.

Uncle Milty wrote:Here's the whole video and transcript

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/27/77384299 ... adis-death

You know, these people are very smart. They're not into the use of cellphones anymore. They're not — they're very technically brilliant. You know, they use the Internet better than almost anybody in the world, perhaps other than Donald Trump. But they use the Internet incredibly well.

Squire wrote:Pelosi announces that on Thursday they will have a full house vote to initiate the House Impeachment Inquiry.

A WH national security official to tell Congress on Tuesday he heard Trump appeal to Ukraine’s president to investigate his leading political rival, a request the aide considered so damaging to American interests that he reported