A Narrative Collapses as Trump Tweets

[applegrove]

A Narrative Collapses as Trump Tweets

January 14, 2020 at 5:26 am EST By Taegan Goddard 19 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/01/14/a-narrative-collapses-as-trump-tweets/

"SNIP.....

New York Times: “In the 10 days since it carried out the drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the Trump administration has been struggling to draft an after-the-fact narrative to justify it. On Monday, President Trump put an end to that hash of explanations.”

Tweeted Trump: “It doesn’t really matter, because of his horrible past.”

“Until that message on Twitter, the administration had insisted in various ways that General Suleimani, Iran’s most important military official, was planning myriad “imminent” attacks. The unraveling of the explanations accelerated over the weekend after Mr. Trump said four embassies were under immediate threat, a charge that his own administration could not back.”

.....SNIP"

[Prosper]

1. Tweeted Trump: "It doesn't really matter, because of his horrible past."

Next will he start nullifying peace treaty’s and start attacking former enemies?

[applegrove]

3. Like Kim or Putin don't have horrible pasts. So this is novel for Trump:

taking out a horrible person instead of kissing their ***.

[BSdetect]

5. Terrible pasts are relative - he has one.

[applegrove]

6. Yes. Soleimani sponsored if not directed terror. Good riddance.

[Skittles]

20. Trump has a horrible past too

[aggiesal]

7. What happens when another country ...

says the same about GW McIdiot or Pendejo45?

[CaptYossarian]

10. That would be an act of war--hey, wait a minute!

That's what he did!

[usaf-vet]

12. It sure mattered to the 176 KIA's in the Ukraine passenger plane. And it mattered to their families.

I use KIA purposely to explain their deaths. None of which would have happened without Trump's act of war

The bios of some of the passengers show that they were living exemplary lives. And in some cases, they were important to international programs. Making the lives of others better through their research and work.

Their deaths are on his hands because of his thoughtless act.

[Frustratedlady]

2. The whole damned crew has been inventing ways to confuse the issue.

You can almost picture a gang of neighborhood boys trying to come up with an excuse for breaking someone's window. No one is smart enough to consider telling the truth. Trump is horrid in that category, but Pompous is ten times worse.

Just look at what we have in this administration. Trump, Pompous, Barr, Mnunchin...on and on and on. Not one of them is good at lying, although they certainly have the practice.

[C_U_L8R]

4. It's looking more like premeditated assassination.

It was a criminal hit job, not a defense against a phantom imminent threat.

[Lonestarblue]

9. Yes. Just as Putin has people assassinated with drugs.

The world sees that the US cannot be trusted under Trump, and that includes the military because they carried out the deliberate murder of a too leader of another country because they could and Trump thought he would look string and be praised. So does that action give other bad actors in the world to take out a US leader? Trump has ordered ICE to commit acts of terrorism against migrants, such as locking them in cages, committing emotional torture against children by separating them from parents, and even denying the possibility of repatriation for some children by deporting the parents and sending the children to be adopted by US families or to live in foster homes indefinitely, often with no checks on whether children might be abused in those homes. And some migrants have died. Should the head of Homeland Security be assassinated for his bad actions? I’m obviously not serious, but Trump has made the world a much worse place.

[2naSalit]

13. Saudis wanted him gone

and so it was done because they pay cash. Somebody thought this would be a good move for orangeanus but they all have a serious and dangerous case of groupthink going on and that needs to be changed. Maybe the banishment of Gaetz will start the unraveling.

[TNNurse]

8. They should understand that he cannot keep a secret.

Just another example of his childishness. He knew there was a cover story, but he could not stay with it.

[2naSalit]

14. He can't be stopped from

embellishing whatever the original thought was. He can't remember details so he drops back to his fantasy imagery to grab at and inserts whatever the noun with his standard denigration language.

Example:

Normal claim...

Needy amin is a nightmare from hell.

-45 type version...

Needy amin is an ugly-demon-nightmare-president-from-hell!

[Augiedog]

11. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

[Wawannabe]

18. ...

Truth!

May the whirlwind suck him up and blow him out in pieces! Fucker!

[avebury]

15. He who lives is glass houses should not throw stones. nt

[sarge43]

16. If terrible pasts justify a drone strike, then Moron should self destruct. n/t

[wishstar]

17. It was his 2020 campaign kickoff to rally base, denounce Dems as pro-terrorism, be wartime Pres

He did not care what repercussions the Suleimani strike could unleash since a crisis of hostile actions back and forth would give him cover to say that we can't impeach him and must be loyal to a wartime Pres.

[CanonRay]

19. It doesn't really matter

because his base and donors don't give a shit. There's truth.