Donald Trump has once again put someone’s safety in jeopardy with his irresponsible, disgusting behavior.
Yesterday, the president canceled a scheduled trip by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Democrats to visit troops in Afghanistan when he grounded the military aircraft they were taking. The Democrats tried to pivot and were “prepared to fly commercially” after Trump told them “if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative.” But now, the trip had to be completely called off thanks to the president’s behavior.
Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, reported that the trip was called off because the safety and security of the trip was compromised, due to “grave threats caused by the President’s action.” Hammill explained:
In the middle of the night, the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service provided an updated threat assessment detailing that the President announcing this sensitive travel had significantly increased the danger to the delegation and to the troops, security, and other officials supporting the trip. This morning, we learned that the Administration had leaked the commercial travel plans as well.”
Hammill also stated on Twitter that “multiple admin sources” were leaking to reporters that the Democrats were going to fly commercially, putting the delegation in danger. Pelosi was warned by the security risks by the State Department, and said it was “very irresponsible on the part of the president” to leak the trip. She fired back:
You never, never give advance notice of going into a battle area. Perhaps the president’s inexperience didn’t have him understand that protocol.”
Of course, the White House is denying that there were any leaks, however considering how untrustworthy the Trump administration is, there’s no reason anyone should believe that. A White House official responded to the accusations and said the “idea we would leak anything that would put the safety and security of any American at risk is an offensive flat out lie.”
The one thing the Trump administration can always be relied on for is to sink to new lows.
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