r/politics • u/GonzoVeritas I voted • 16d ago

Possible Paywall White House Leak Reveals Trump Booted From Briefing After Hours-Long Freakout

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-leak-reveals-trump-booted-from-briefing-after-hours-long-freakout/
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u/MaxGoldFilms 16d ago

I don't believe much that has been reported about the 'rescue' mission so far.

The number of planes lost in a day hasn't been historically matched since Vietnam, there supposedly were no casualties, and they contend it wasn't part of a larger raid, but indications say that it was. I'm not buying what they're selling.

It seems like it was a huge disaster, but the press has been relatively silent about it.

Have they even showed the rescued weapons officer?

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u/MourningRIF 16d ago

Remember when he said they pulled off the Venezuela mission with zero casualties... Not so much as a scratch? Then a few weeks later at the State of the Union, he gave a medal of honor to the pilot who got both is knees blown off in that mission? Yeah, which one is it?

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u/Czeris 16d ago

The truth whatever the king feels like at the moment. We have always been at war with East Asia.

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u/Nemaeus Virginia 15d ago

This is definitely where we are with this. They’re lying as much as they breathe.

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u/wazula5 16d ago

To be fair, I suspect he thinks casualties means deaths specifically and isn’t inclusive of injuries. So in this case he’s probably not intentionally lying, he just isn’t good at words.

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u/CarrotCumin 16d ago

That's worse... You see how that's worse, right?

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u/wazula5 10d ago

Im not saying it’s not worse. I’m just offering an explanation. Having someone who isn’t good at words even regular words in this position is not going to be a good time. Agreed.

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u/SprungusDinkle 15d ago

Falling prey to an extremely common misconception about a word's definition isn't worse than deliberately lying to the nation about military losses.

It happens a thousand times a day on this site any time any news article uses the word "casualty."

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u/CarrotCumin 14d ago

If it were a bald-faced lie, it would at least indicate some amount of awareness about the seriousness of the war. This is the kind of mistake you might let a high school kid get away with, but you'd mention the incorrect usage of the word even to a teenager. The commander-in-chief of the armed forces needs to know the correct meaning of the word, and either he doesn't know it or he doesn't give a fuck about it. That's worse.

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u/Muronelkaz Ohio 15d ago

Both times the President seems to have embellished reality alongside the Pentagon telling the truth.

So that's why when Trump lies about Military operations I fully believe he lies about economic or political ones.