After reviewing both Trump's statement announcing the death of al-Baghdadi and Obama's statement announcing the death of Osama bin Laden, there was a huge difference, but it had nothing to do with respect for the dead.Barack Obama's statement was carefully crafted to paint a narrative that made him a central figure of the events leading up to bin Laden's death.
Obama's goal was to make him synonymous with the death of bin Laden the year before he would face the voters again.
Much of the story Obama pushed would later be contradicted by CIA director Leon Panetta, who revealed that Navy SEALs, not Obama, made the final decision to kill bin Laden, and that Obama was not in the Situation Room constantly monitoring the situation, but elsewhere playing cards at various times.
Obama spent the next year and a half campaigning as the mastermind behind bin Laden's death and taking credit for it.
Ryan Zinke, a former commander in the U.S. Navy who led a SEAL Team 6 assault unit, accused Obama of exploiting bin Laden's death in order to get reelected.
" Obama even had a campaign ad about the bin Laden raid, which resulted in bipartisan criticism.
Obama approached bin Laden's death as a political event that would help him get reelected, and constructed a narrative that made him a central figure in the events leading up to and during the raid, even though he wasn't so much.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/flashback-barack-obama-made-the-death-of-bin-laden-all-about-himself/
Obama's goal was to make him synonymous with the death of bin Laden the year before he would face the voters again.
Much of the story Obama pushed would later be contradicted by CIA director Leon Panetta, who revealed that Navy SEALs, not Obama, made the final decision to kill bin Laden, and that Obama was not in the Situation Room constantly monitoring the situation, but elsewhere playing cards at various times.
Obama spent the next year and a half campaigning as the mastermind behind bin Laden's death and taking credit for it.
Ryan Zinke, a former commander in the U.S. Navy who led a SEAL Team 6 assault unit, accused Obama of exploiting bin Laden's death in order to get reelected.
" Obama even had a campaign ad about the bin Laden raid, which resulted in bipartisan criticism.
Obama approached bin Laden's death as a political event that would help him get reelected, and constructed a narrative that made him a central figure in the events leading up to and during the raid, even though he wasn't so much.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/flashback-barack-obama-made-the-death-of-bin-laden-all-about-himself/
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