DONALD TRUMP WHO AVOIDED SERVING IN THE ARMED FORCES ATTACKS RETIRED NAVY SEAL, ADMIRAL BILL MCRAVEN.
In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Trump insulted retired Navy SEAL Adm. Bill McRaven, who commanded the 2011 raid that took down Osama bin Laden, calling him "a Hillary Clinton backer and an Obama backer" and asking "Wouldn't it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that?"
Trump was responding to ongoing criticism from McRaven, who in August resigned from the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Board over his disapproval of Trump. McRaven also wrote an open letter in the Washington Post in which he asked Trump, who had recently revoked the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan, to revoke his own, "so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency." McRaven has previously called the president's anti-media sentiment "the greatest threat to democracy in [his] lifetime," according to the Daily Texan.
Trump on retired Navy SEAL Adm. Bill McRaven, who has called the president's attacks on the press "the greatest threat to democracy."
"He's a Hillary Clinton backer and an Obama backer. And frankly, wouldn't it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that?"
Trump went on to suggest that finding bin Laden should have been easy: "You know, living - think of this - living in Pakistan, beautifully in Pakistan in what I guess they considered a nice mansion, I don't know, I've seen nicer. But living in Pakistan right next to the military academy, everybody in Pakistan knew he was there."
Others - from former soldiers to political commentators - have stepped in to defend McRaven on Twitter, calling him "a patriot and true hero," as well as to correct the record. (McRaven never endorsed Clinton and maintained the military's traditional apolitical stance while serving under Obama, though was at times criticized for his being too open with his opinions.)
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