I was out and about all day - do I have this right?

[jpak]

Trump approves Special Ops Raid against ISIS Leader Baghdadi

Trump calls up Pal Putin and informs him of the raid.

Trump doesn't tell Congress of said raid.

Raid begins

Trump is at his golf course - not WH Situation Room

Raid successful (?)

Trump poses for fake Situation Room photo with Yes Men after golfing and hours after raid.

Pal Putin throws shade on raid - throws Trump under bus.

Trump makes fool of himself and spouts more lies at news conference this AM.

Did I miss anything?

[Mz Pip]

1. That's pretty much it.

Trump will be crowing over this all week.

[LenaBaby61]

2. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

The only thing is that this 'operation' has more smoke and clouds surrounding it than smoke coming out of a huge Barbecue put.

Which lying liar is telling the truth? tRump or putin? 🤔

ru$$ia said they're already killed Baghdadi 🤔

Facist fatso said gave he gave the okay for the raid 🤔

The Kurds found Baghdadi though 🤔

Facist Fatso thanked ru$$ia before thanking SpecialOps and CIA 🤔

This whole 'operation' the way Fascist Fatso describes it doesn't pass the smell test IMHO. Over the next few days/weeks/months, I'm hoping that investigative reporters/news journals et al (Not Faux or Breitbart, the mostly do propaganda) REALLY dig up what's going on here with this alleged Baghdadi suicide.

Link to tweet

[Hermit-The-Prog]

26. there it is. every reporter, every time should ask, "Can you prove that?"

[LenaBaby61]

27. EXACTLY!!!!

[George II]

3. Excellent summary, thanks.

[forgotmylogin]

4. My suspicion: it was happenstance and 45 is trying to retroactively take credit.

NYT story says that Donnie has been pulling resources from Syria, so the raid was a "do it now or never" thing. They succeeded in taking out the "world's number one terrorist" even though I've never heard of him. (Might be ignorance on my part.)

Trump was golfing, and decided to take credit for it. He wanted a "war room moment" photo like Obaba had. It took two hours to get some dudes together and scatter some unplugged ethernet cable to stage the photo as if he were on the ball and not on the green and put on his "I'm serious" face.

The next morning the King of Golf announces said Isis leader was "whimpering and crying" as if he were actually was in charge and paying attention.

[Chellee]

5. One small thing - Baghdadi was not the leader of ISIS.

He named a successor in early August due to failing health.

https://intpolicydigest.org/2019/08/23/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-relinquishes-control-of-isis-but-not-the-islamic-caliphate/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

So what we got was a retired, handicapped man. Still, a very bad man when he was in his prime, and he was the self declared leader of the caliphate, so that's something.

[EndlessWire]

16. You're right, he doesn't deserve any sympathy whatsoever.

Decapitating noncombatants, burning people to death in cages...the world will not miss this monster.

[japple]

20. A retired, handicapped man with 3 children in tow.

eom

[CatWoman]

6. I missed out on Putin throwing shade

got a link?

[SMC22307]

13. Same here! Putin. Shade. Under-the-bus-throwing. Whut? (n/t)

[jpak]

19. Ahem, my Dear CatWoman (yes Daily Mail - ugh)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7619101/Russian-Defence-Ministry-unaware-alleged-assistance-Baghdadi-operation-RIA.html

[CatWoman]

24. thanks J

[Hekate]

7. Oh. My. Gods.

[Blue_true]

8. My guess is the military had been tracking the guy for months.

Trump fucked things up with the pullout of troops. The Pentagon saw a window closing and a risky raid was done. I doubt if they told Trump about everything that would happen beforehand.

[oldsoftie]

33. Thats exactly how it happened.

[malaise]

9. Yes - the subject of the raid died for the sixth time today

[lunatica]

10. You missed one pretty important point

The Kurds were instrumental in getting Al Baghdadi. They probably told us where he was exactly.

[crickets]

21. They were certainly more involved than Trump was.

Link to tweet

@MazloumAbdi
For five months there has been joint intel cooperation on the ground and accurate monitoring, until we achieved a joint operation to kill Abu Bakir al-Bagdadi.

Thanks to everybody who participate in this great mission.
@realDonaldTrump
#SDF
#USArmy
#Rojava
#Baghdadi

5:23 AM - 27 Oct 2019

[zaj]

11. Didn't this raid also get delayed due to Turkey fiasco?

[Salviati]

14. I believe it actually got moved up.

The mess in Syria forced our hand, as well as betraying the allies whose intel helped us set it up...

[Ligyron]

12. At some point one of those people in the picture will fess up.

I hope it's sooner rather than later. The wrong "leader" was attacked anyway.

[brush]

28. Did trump even know about the raid beforehand? Why was he golfing if he knew?

I read somewhere that the generals didn't tell him so he wouldn't fu_k it up.

[soldierant]

30. Maybe this?

https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/military-officials-admit-trump-almost-ruined-the-al-baghdadi-raid/

[Ligyron]

31. Yes that exactly.

Everything Trump touches turns to shit

[Brainfodder]

15. Something about a crying coward, but wrote off as projecting?

[Hamlette]

17. Lindsay Graham loves and agrees with Trump on Syria.

because.

[MustLoveBeagles]

18. Nope you didn't miss anything

That's a spot on assessment.

[crickets]

22. Spot on summation. nt

[Peacetrain]

23. You got it!

[EndlessWire]

25. Did he really call Putin first, and not our Congress?

If so, that is gawd awful. What's this bozo doing consulting with Putin? It just seems so apparent that he has a deal going with Russia and Turkey to divide the ME oil. Or something fishy. Something there.

I think he is moving assets to attack Iran. He was slowed by the outrage over the Syrian pullout, but he has made some deal, and he needed cover. Every time he has people shrieking in outrage over something he has done, he follows it up with something else that is shocking. We can't catch a breath. Every. effing. day.

I am very worried about the 50 nukes we have stored in Turkey. Is Donnie Two Scoops securing those, or is he just worried about outdoing Obama? He is so pathetic. Putin is his daddy. It's just too bad that Trump has control of our military. I'm guessing a major war in 2020, before the scheduled election. Then, he can put it on hold.

[MineralMan]

29. That about covers it, except

that Trump also said things about what happened that he didn't know happened or were true. Like the "whimpering and crying" that supposedly went on. He just made that up.

[Generic Brad]

32. Yes

Then he boasted past the point of absurdity (did you know nobody knows more about the internet than Trump?) and tried to humiliate IsIs.

The he went to a baseball game expecting a hero's welcome and was instead booed by a stadium of baseball fans who also chanted "Lock Him Up!".

Then his black heart broke.