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President Trump reportedly asked the CIA why it waited until a terror targets family left the building before launching a drone missile strike against him.
Why did you wait? the president asked, according to the Washington Post, after being shown a video of an earlier strike in Syria by the ISIS-fighting spooks.
The CIAs head of drone operations told the commander-in-chief that the agencys goal was to minimize civilian casualties, an explanation that left Trump unimpressed, the paper reported.
On the campaign trail, then-candidate Trump once said that the US should kill not just terrorists, but their wives, children and other relatives as well.
https://nypost.com/2018/04/06/trump-asked-cia-why-they-spared-family-when-killing-terrorist-target/
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)riversedge
(70,218 posts)we knew who he was, yet many voted for him. yup, we knew.
....On the campaign trail, then-candidate Trump once said that the US should kill not just terrorists, but their wives, children and other relatives as well.
https://nypost.com/2018/04/06/trump-asked-cia-why-they-spared-family-when-killing-terrorist-target/
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Another one of this idiot's 'Hit Parade' questions is, "Why do we have nukes if we're not going to use them?"
Mr. Mueller, sir? Please hurry!
K&R
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He is a man without a conscience. Without any empathy or remorse. I hope more than anything that he is in a position someday where he is the one who will require the sympathy of others while we turn our backs on him and show him exactly the same brutal coldness and lack of humanity that he has shown the rest of the world.
AJT
(5,240 posts)dalton99a
(81,488 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Death squads and the whole thing.
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)If trump had his druthers and could get away with it he would dismantle our democracy and go full fledged dictatorship in a hot minute. While on the campaign trail trump mused to a crowd about why even have an election, just make him president and be done with it...
magicarpet
(14,150 posts)..... If given the slightest chance to pull it all off. He is 3/4 of the way there already.
deminks
(11,014 posts)https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/seal-american-girl-die-first-trump-era-u-s-military-n714346
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-navy-seals-yemen-raid-nawar-al-awlaki-william-ryan-owens-donald-trump-intelligence-a7558516.html
He is consistent in his cruelty.
Why didn't you wait, Donnie?
eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)lostnfound
(16,179 posts)He has no respect for the autonomy or individual lives of his own family members. Part of his primitive worldview.