Last night in his address to Congress, Trump staged a dram, asking the audience to applaud the widow of Senior Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, the NAVY Seal who died during a mission in Yemen, a mission under Mr, Trump as Commander in Chief. Mrs Ryan, standiong next to Ivanka Trump, cried profusely. Her all too real tears tugging at the hearts of all of us.
Mr. Trump gad already poisoned the memory of Chief Ryan. That morning, in an interview with Fox News Trump said the mission “was started before I got here” and, after all the (his) generals ” wanted to do.”
And … “And they lost Ryan.”
Trump traveled to greet Owens’s body when it was returned to U.S. soil. Later, Owens’s father said that he refused to meet Trump that day and has called for an investigation into the decision-making that led to the operation.
Trump offered sympathy for the officer’s father, William Owens.
“I can understand people saying that,” Trump said. “I’d feel — you know, I’d feel, what’s worse? There’s nothing worse.” But never did Trump acknowledge his responsibility as the senior-most leader in the United States military chain of command in authorizing the operation. Worse, he has denied the fultility of the mission, that is the leaked reports that no useful information was obtained, And,as usual, the death UNDER HIS COMMAND is everyone else’s fault.