The nation has been talking in recent days about the commando raid that took out Osama bin Laden.
I thought I’d share with you a video of President Obama announcing “to the nation and the world” the death of the terrorist leader. Here it is:
Perhaps the most relevant point I want to emphasize here is the president’s explanation of the tireless work done by anti-terrorism experts working for two presidential administrations. President Bush’s team began the hunt for bin Laden shortly after 9/11, then handed it off to President Obama’s team.
It took time, patience and perseverance for our intelligence community to find bin Laden in that compound in Pakistan.
Yet there came the unfounded and idiotic criticism from Donald J. Trump that the team that took out bin Laden should have done it “much sooner.” He laid the criticism at the feet of retired Admiral William McRaven, the man who coordinated the effort that resulted in bin Laden’s death in May 2011.
Trump doesn’t know what transpired between 9/11 and the raid that eliminated bin Laden. So his criticism of McRaven is tasteless, ignorant and despicable.
I thought you might want to hear from Trump’s immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, how this huge event came to pass.