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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTSF admits to letting Iran Attack US troops
He did not stop them or strike back."
This isn't a "sources said" or "according to reporting" this is, very literally, out of TSF own mouth. He, by his own admission, let a hostile nation attack US troops.
We are truly living in tht upside down. Cannot even begin to make sense of this. How the fuck are we, as a society, just ignoring it or even worse, implying this is not a campaign ending revelation?
I just can't. This needs to be shouted from the mountain tops until you cannot talk anymore and then do it some more.
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Biophilic
(6,552 posts)This is beyond crazy. Its treasonous. He allowed some of our soldiers to be attacked!!!
cannabis_flower
(3,932 posts)Whet does TSF stand for? I know TFG is the former guy.
ybbor
(1,749 posts)iluvtennis
(21,497 posts)Biophilic
(6,552 posts)There are so many derogatory names for trump that I actually stop paying attention. Not that he doesnt deserve them, it just wasnt worth my time to remember them. If they actually hurt or impacted him I would jump on them. Ive let others run with the names. Some are really delightful and all too accurate.
caraher
(6,359 posts)I was hoping the "F" stood for "felon" which is simply factual - and damning
wnylib
(26,014 posts)"felon" fits well, although it originally meant "the sick f**k." Same source for TSF as TFG. It's abbreviated from a comment by President Biden.
I prefer TOF for the orange felon, or the orange fascist.
RandomNumbers
(19,156 posts)That F******g Guy
and everyone just says "the former guy" for the kiddos.
Martin Eden
(15,628 posts)The Fascist Grifter
denvine
(859 posts)littlemissmartypants
(33,587 posts)How is this not treason.
czarjak
(13,639 posts)lame54
(39,771 posts)liberalla
(11,089 posts)Yes, I'm sure that's what it was
live love laugh
(16,383 posts)SKKY
(12,801 posts)It would have been all over the news if there was a D next to his name.
This is so sad. That hes running neck and neck with one of the most moral, effective leaders weve seen in recent years is a disgrace. And utter disgrace. 😞
ChazInAz
(3,017 posts)Cosmocat
(15,424 posts)and didn't ...
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)UpInArms
(54,983 posts)I let them hit us
Rhiannon12866
(255,525 posts)He's already shown his contempt for our brave military - "losers and suckers"
JoseBalow
(9,488 posts)What a piece of shit this idiot is
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)traitortrump should face a firing squad.
niyad
(132,440 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381
sellitman
(11,745 posts)Holy shit!!!!
B.See
(8,502 posts)... what's good for the goose...
getagrip_already
(17,802 posts)at least not that potus.
B.See
(8,502 posts)Which begs the question, if you enable a treasonous m--, are u not complicit?
Dave says
(5,425 posts)eppur_se_muova
(41,942 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,484 posts)in one way or another.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)Grins
(9,459 posts)It goes back to 2019. There was NO communication with Iran, and HUNDREDS of American troops suffered brain damage and other trauma from the attack.
Good catch! But if the DNC doesnt make this go nuclear on Trump AND THE GOP - they should be fired.
Iggo
(49,927 posts)Raven123
(7,797 posts)angrychair
(12,284 posts)Is undeniable because he literally said it, himself, on a national news program.
I will take him at his own word until it's proven otherwise.
TSF is either telling the truth or is seriously cognitively impaired or both.
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Deep State Witch
(12,716 posts)I was still working when that happened. All of us were very upset, especially because we thought we were going to war with Iran. Just when I think that I couldn't be upset by anything that TCF did, here we go again.
Old Crank
(7,078 posts)Warpy
(114,615 posts)Somehow I doubt this is true, it seems like confabulation to me along the lines of "See? I reward all who worship me."
Whether or not its true, the fact that he said it is absolutely horrendous.
And his fan club laps it right up.
B.See
(8,502 posts)PatSeg
(53,214 posts)He lies so much and forgets a whole lot, so maybe he doesn't honestly know what he did.
Warpy
(114,615 posts)which is a pretty strong indicator of dementia, also.
I don't honestly care, the fact that he thought it was a great thing to say, that he'd deliberatly gotten 100 service members injured because somebody had flattered him, is utterly reprehensible.
PatSeg
(53,214 posts)to hold the office of president.
Meanwhile, let him keep on talking up until election day, so no one forgets what a disaster he is. He will make many more super gaffes, because he just can't help himself.
TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)to a direct view of his mode of operation.
I also don't see Bolton as a source of truth because if he admitted to knowing this he'd have some accountability.
paulrevere2018
(84 posts)From the WaPo back in November 2023
The Pinocchio Test
How many ways does Trump get this wrong? He claims that he hit Iran after a U.S. drone was downed, but in fact he canceled the strike, to the shock of his aides. He also asserts that Iran personally warned him they would attack a U.S. base and deliberately miss it. Thats ludicrous. In reality, a vague warning without a target was given to the Iraqi president and most of the missiles hit the base. No one was killed, but that was more the result of a well-planned evacuation than Iranian targeting. Somehow Trump embraces Irans self-serving after-the-fact explanation to the United Nations. And while no one was killed, many soldiers suffered serious brain injuries.
Such a jumbled-up recollection of events is par for the course for Trump. So is the fact that he yet again earns Four Pinocchios.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/15/no-iran-didnt-deliberately-avoid-hitting-us-base-trump-claims/
angrychair
(12,284 posts)That makes it even worse because
1) it implies he would have done it
2) he is seriously cognitively impaired and unfit for office
Dave says
(5,425 posts)himself. He says one bunch of numbers to MB, then he says another bunch a few moments later. Which is it, TSF?
KS Toronado
(23,727 posts)our entire Armed Forces was on heightened alert for a revenge attack. This sounds like someone with Dementia
who's trying real hard to impress a FQX audience and failing.
Dave says
(5,425 posts)He could say the moon is made of cream cheese and the Fox audience would go, ok. They thought it was made of cotton candy but now learn - and accept - that its cream cheese. They flit to and fro on reality anyway, never aware of what actually is.
Renew Deal
(85,151 posts)So I don't think it has anything to do with the "respect" for trump
kgray96057
(29 posts)I believe that these sort of messages, from one side to another, happen. Part of the art of war- keeping things from escalating into something neither side can control.
Allowing troops to be injured by this, however... And casually admitting to it? Shows a serious lack of concern for the safety of people that Trump ostensibly lead.
spanone
(141,609 posts)JoseBalow
(9,488 posts)Or am I thinking of a different drumpf failure of duty?
paulrevere2018
(84 posts)Alert general evacuated most of the troops in advanced, based on intel, or there would have certainly been troops killed.
William769
(59,147 posts)PatSeg
(53,214 posts)The post is from February. Why are we just hearing this now?
paulrevere2018
(84 posts)He just flings so much crap out there it gets lost. Thats where the RW media steps in and reduces/doctors it up into neat little sound bites. Then the talking heads add their fake rage and gins the magats up.
PatSeg
(53,214 posts)these days, it is hard to keep up.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Stolen Valor Tom Cotton who betrayed our troops' who developed TBI,
Wicked Blue
(8,867 posts)BSdetect
(9,048 posts)Hope22
(4,746 posts)Still support this TSF! What is wrong with these people?
AllyCat
(18,842 posts)The press just let this slide?
Cherokee100
(454 posts)Because his billionaire friends control the media.