Trump says he doesn't know 'anything' about reported North Korea SEAL Team 6 mission

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: ABC News

President Donald Trump said Friday he didn't know "anything" about what the New York Times reported was a classified 2019 SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea in which unarmed North Korean civilians were killed during an aborted operation.

The Pentagon and U.S. Special Operations Command declined to comment to ABC News about The New York Times report.

ABC News has not confirmed the details in the report.

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The account, citing "two dozen people, including civilian government officials, members of the first Trump administration and current and former military personnel with knowledge of the mission" who spoke to the Times anonymously, said Trump had approved the mission.



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[tanyev]

1. Yeah, a SEAL team just decided to go into North Korea without presidential approval.

[marble falls]

2. They get tired and bored just hanging around the ready room.

[GB_RN]

3. Hey, To Be Fair...

In this case, Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent is probably telling the truth. As far into dementia as he seems to be, he probably doesn’t remember what he had for breakfast, much less something in 2019!😂

[slightlv]

4. I was thinking the same thing, GB...

the man has no memory left except for those who have "wronged" him... and he only remembers them because it's written on his bones.

[tanyev]

7. True, but he's used this cop out over and over again.

Anything getting good press is always because he made it happen. Anything getting bad press is, “I don’t know anything about it, I’m just the president. You need to find whoever’s really in charge.”

[GB_RN]

10. Oh, No Doubt.

I just threw the dementia hypothesis out there, not as a cop out or being a Caligula apologist, but as one possible explanation. It’s almost impossible for me to give him the benefit of the doubt on anything.

Honestly though, I hope it is dementia. But before he’s n longer with it (relatively speaking), I want his ass to have a massive stroke. I don’t want it to kill him, I just want it to leave him in a state where he knows he’s drooling, unable to speak, relies on someone to feed him, pissing and shitting himself in his adult diapers. Of course, those last two are probably not a real change from how he lives now.😂

[Bristlecone]

5. Just more IMplausible deniability

[lonely bird]

6. The sentence was too long

Trump doesn’t know anything.

[AverageOldGuy]

8. Trump lies

An operation of this type requires a PDM -- Presidential Decision Memorandum. The President is briefed, in most cases several times, in detail about the operation -- purpose, who will do it, the risks, etc. He must then approve the operation by signing a PDM.

He would have to have signed a PDM. Of course, he likely does not remember, or, he is lying, or both.

[JoetheShow]

9. Can you imagine the outrage if North Korean, Russian, Chinese, or whoever's special forces...

violated American waters on a spy mission and murdered innocent civilians? The President, Congress and the news media would be outraged and demand retribution. But when we do it to another country, there is a collective yawn. Just another day of America doing whatever it wants in a world we believe we own.

[twodogsbarking]

11. President Donald Trump said Friday he didn't know "anything"

[Paladin]

12. Translation: trump knows everything. (nt)

[travelingthrulife]

13. Is this when he was making moon eyes at Kim Jong Un?

Invading him behind his back? Nasty.

[Polybius]

17. It was allegedly right before they became friends with that love letter n/t

[MLWR]

14. I guess his senility is getting worse.

I can't believe SEAL team 6 went in there without presidential approval.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

15. Just like he did not know of Jr.'s 2016 meeting with Russians at Trump Tower either.

That dog don't hunt!

TACO Don has to know everything that goes down. THAT is how he rolls!

[republianmushroom]

16. trump lies, period.

More love letters to follow ? I didn't know, didn't want it to happen, but, vance.

[sakabatou]

18. So he's ceding that he has no control over the military

[Emile]

19. Got to hand it to him, he's to embarrassed to admit failure.

[Emile]

20. They punctured their lungs so their bodies would sink.

This is some sick shit ordered by Trump.

[Borogove]

21. No surprise since he doesn't know anything about anything. But he was right about everything.

[RedArkGuy]

22. Trump and his bunch . . .

. . . are such amateur Machiavellis that I wouldn't doubt the operation was meant to eliminate an enemy of Kim Jung Un, perhaps someone feeding the CIA information. In fact I can well imagine it as some kind of keystone kops venture, an embarrassing screwup that likely played into Un's hands and that is why he hasn't made any kind of statement about it since it happened.