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Trump Makes Light Of Terrorists Who Killed U.S. Soldiers In Omarosa Tape

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...r-ambush-laughter_us_5b96c0e7e4b0162f472ff597

A newly released audiotape shows President Donald Trump seeming to make light of the deaths of four U.S. soldiers who were killed Oct. 4, 2017, in an ambush in Niger.

The tape was recorded about two weeks later by former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman during a meeting the president had with his communications team about the ambush and the movement of terrorists.

Manigault Newman played the tape Monday for MSNBC host Craig Melvin and said the way the president makes light of the situation shows just how “unhinged and inappropriate” he is.
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Hufpo's takeaway from this: The terrorist thing.

My takeaway: He truly is a bumbling idiot drunk at the end of the bar.

Scary stuff. Hard to listen to.

 
lurchadams said:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...r-ambush-laughter_us_5b96c0e7e4b0162f472ff597



Hufpo's takeaway from this: The terrorist thing.

My takeaway: He truly is a bumbling idiot drunk at the end of the bar.

Scary stuff. Hard to listen to.

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Not scary stuff. Never mocked the soldiers. Merely stated it was a bad time to be a terrorist, to which the comms people laugh at. It a little bit of levity in an otherwise dreadful situation.

Still haven't heard an Omarosa tape worth a damn.
 
Chaddelamancha said:
Not scary stuff. Never mocked the soldiers. Merely stated it was a bad time to be a terrorist, to which the comms people laugh at. It a little bit of levity in an otherwise dreadful situation.

Still haven't heard an Omarosa tape worth a damn.
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Wow, you really think trump sounds like a man with all his marbles?
 
lurchadams said:
Wow, you really think trump sounds like a man with all his marbles?
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I didn't say that. I just think Omarosa, and to an extent, the media, are mischaracterizing this particular tape. I don't feel like he disrespected, or mocked, the soldiers in any way, shape, or form.
 
In a 'condolence' phone call with Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Army Sgt. La David Johnson on October 23, 2017, Trump fumbled her husband's name and said that "he knew what he signed up for, but it hurts anyways."

In my view, a callous communication with a Gold Star widow who received the call on speakerphone at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, waiting to receive her husband's body.
 
Chaddelamancha said:
I didn't say that. I just think Omarosa, and to an extent, the media, are mischaracterizing this particular tape. I don't feel like he disrespected, or mocked, the soldiers in any way, shape, or form.
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I'm not buying it either.
 
Chaddelamancha said:
Not scary stuff. Never mocked the soldiers. Merely stated it was a bad time to be a terrorist, to which the comms people laugh at. It a little bit of levity in an otherwise dreadful situation.

Still haven't heard an Omarosa tape worth a damn.
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Don't make me defend Donald Trump!

Not you Chad, meant to quote the OP.
 
Chaddelamancha said:
I didn't say that. I just think Omarosa, and to an extent, the media, are mischaracterizing this particular tape. I don't feel like he disrespected, or mocked, the soldiers in any way, shape, or form.
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I agree. I hate what Trump is doing to the country, the world and notions of truth, but it seems to me just an offhand comment. He is by no means Mr. Sensitive, and I shudder to think how he might react to a school shooting, for example, but this is small potatoes compared to his other stuff.
 
Nickyjo said:
I agree. I hate what Trump is doing to the country, the world and notions of truth, but it seems to me just an offhand comment. He is by no means Mr. Sensitive, and I shudder to think how he might react to a school shooting, for example, but this is small potatoes compared to his other stuff.
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I just hope we don't have a real crisis where calm, strong leadership is required.
 
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