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gonna have to review the 15 people Trump just pardoned tomorrow, tonight I need sleep... sounds a little sketchy though at first glance.
@freemo here allow me to put your mind at ease with one simple click. You'll sleep like a baby 🚼😉
@Wetrix well that just makes me more concerned!
@freemo you'll see that the dems are no saints either ⚜️🤣
@Wetrix Thats not new news to me. I already know their both pieces of shit, but im still going to make a point to research before I form an opinion. But trust me no matter how bad trump looks it will be hard to make obama look rosey as a result.
@freemo Obama was worse than Trump. 🙃
@Wetrix He pardoned more people, but im not sure that makes him worse in that regard. It would depend on who he pardoned and why.
Overall though, not talking about pardons, I tend to agree. His murder of a US citizen without trial or other due process is an act Trump hasnt come close to comparing to.
The mission in Yemen was rejected by Obama and obama scrapped it with no intention of it being executed. Trump however revived it and decided to execute it. Any consequences of the yemen mission are on Trump.
I've never heard that, but I know that a lot of missions that are done between administrations are left for the next president to decide, and I know this particular one was done on a new moon to be unnoticed, and yet the targets were prepared, and there's speculation that they were tipped off ahead of time.
Covert, special operations and intelligence stuff is really fucky to me and most of the time I don't trust public information about it.
@Wetrix
The Obama administration refused to approve the raid; the Guardian reported that it had been reviewed several times, citing an anonymous government source.[27]
The approval of the Yakla raid did not follow the rigorous procedure used during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, which involved a Situation Room meeting that detailed the operational plan, operational goals, a risk assessment (to both U.S. personnel and civilians), and a legal assessment of the operation. Instead, the raid was approved over dinner conversations between Trump, his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, his special adviser Steve Bannon, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.[30] Mattis, along with General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented the plan; then-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was also at the dinner.[31][32] No representatives from the State Department were present, departing from the norms of previous administrations.[32] Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner both reportedly opposed the mission.[32] Flynn reportedly strongly advocated for the mission to President Trump.[32]
The decision did not go through the normal National Security Council (NSC) channels, through which heads or deputy heads of all agencies with a stake in the operation would be consulted.[31] U.S. military officials stated that the assault went forth "without sufficient intelligence, ground support, or adequate backup preparations."[33]
