On Monday, President Donald Trump floated publicly releasing video footage of the U.S. Special Operation raid that led to the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
“We’re thinking about it,” Trump told reporters. “We may.”
The President said his administration might release “certain parts of it.”
During his press conference on Sunday announcing the ISIS leader’s death, Trump described the grisly details of al-Baghdadi’s suicide via bomb vest during the raid in northwestern Syria.
“He died after running into a dead end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way,” Trump said.
However, the New York Times reported that Trump would not have been able to see what happened in the tunnel through the surveillance feeds in the White House Situation Room, nor would he have gotten an audio feed of the raid in real time.
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Trump says he "may" release video footage of the raid that led to ISIS leader's death pic.twitter.com/kr7WDq5zMm
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Full release?
Of course Trump wants to release a snuff film, he probably figures that it is just like the movies.
It’s really becoming apparent that Trump didn’t follow this at all, he just got a report and made up the story of how it ended in his mind. And, it’s apparent that he’s looking at the military as a prop to help him win support in 2020…I fear for what he’ll try to get the military to do to get the “rah rah, you can’t be against the president in time of war!” vote, whether it will be raids that kill American soldiers or just a declaration of war against some nation he can kick around. Bad times ahead.
Once he photoshops himself into the video, pushing the button on the suicide vest…
He is really pissed people aren’t treating this like his equivalent of Obama’s Bin Laden Raid.
Trump is irrelevant in this matter. We all know that the raid still would have happened under a President Pence.