For Some Reason President Trump Keeps On Going After The Navy Admiral Who Was In Charge Of The Raid That Killed Osama Bin Laden

Wallace brought up McRaven’s assertion that Trump’s attitude toward the media constitutes “perhaps the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.”

“Hillary Clinton fan,” Trump said, interrupting Wallace the moment the Fox News host mentioned McRaven.

“Excuse me, Hillary Clinton fan,” the president repeated, as Wallace tried to continue.

” … who led the operations, commanded the operations that took down Saddam Hussein and that killed Osama bin Laden, says that your sentiment is the greatest threat to democracy in his lifetime,” Wallace said.
“OK, he’s a Hilary Clinton backer and an Obama-backer and frankly … ” Trump replied.

“He was a Navy SEAL 37 years,” Wallace interjected.

Trump then pondered how “nice” it would have been “if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner” and implied finding him in Pakistan should have been easy.

Former acting CIA director Michael Morrell said on Twitter that there was a “correction needed” in Trump’s insinuation that McRaven should have found bin Laden sooner. He said it was the CIA that did the “finding” while McRaven’s team did the “getting.’

“I did not back Hillary Clinton or anyone else,” McRaven said in a statement to CNN on Sunday in response to Trump’s comments. “I am a fan of President Obama and President George W. Bush, both of whom I worked for.”

McRaven said he admires all presidents, “regardless of their political party, who uphold the dignity of the office and who use that office to bring the Nation together in challenging times.”

“I stand by my comment that the President’s attack on the media is the greatest threat to our democracy in my lifetime. When you undermine the people’s right to a free press and freedom of speech and expression, then you threaten the Constitution and all for which it stands.”

What a wild time we live in. It’s so insanely stupid to think that the US Government was waiting around to kill Bin Laden and wanted to wait longer than one second more than we needed to. Just from a simple standpoint of polling it would make no sense. George Bush or Barrack Obama could have used that polling boost at any point in their Presidencies.

The troops on the ground could have used the morale boost at any given time in the war of terror.

It’s just a dumb statement to make about military members and CIA operatives who were risking their lives every single day to find and kill Bin Laden. I’m searching my brain to find a reason, one simple reason as to why it’s stupid, but why do we need to do that? It’s just fucking stupid. Simple as that.

We’ll have more on this on tomorrow’s zero blog thirty.