>> White house chief of staff Mark Meadows, went on Fox and friends to claim, that Trump
is the only President. Trump is the only president to take out a terrorist, referring to the
assassination of an Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. Which by the way was a terrible
move by Trump, even though Soleimani is accused of all sorts of terrible things.
Let's keep it real, that could have launched a full blown war with Iran. And it wasn't
a good idea, and hasn't really done anything, when it comes to stopping Iran from trying
to develop a nuclear weapon. Which is what Trump's stated goal was to begin with. But
nonetheless, let's take a listen to Mark Meadows, forgetting that Osama Bin Laden was taken
out by the Obama administration.
>> This is the only president, who actually went after a terrorist and took them out.
How do we know that, we saw it in real time, where this president took on a threat. And
Iran is the state sponsor, the preeminent state sponsor of terror. And yet, John Kerry
is supposedly gonna applaud, the efforts of the Obama administration.
>> So again, the Obama administration carried out a successful mission using Seal Team Six,
to not only find Osama Bin Laden, but they took them out. That was a huge day, and look,
what I find so incredible is, we work with terrorists all the time. Donald Trump is allies
with the Saudi government, he's buddies with the Saudi MBS, Mohammed Bin Salman.
He's a friend with Saudi Royals, who carry out acts of terror all the time against their
own people, against the people of Yemen, which we assist in. And so, the argument that we
need to take out terrorists is ridiculous. When in reality, pick and choose, we pick
winners, right, when it comes to terrorists.
And with Osama Bin Laden, that was a direct attack against Americans on US soil. With
Qasem Soleimani, regardless of what you think about him, you have to go about things strategically.
And what Trump did could have been a complete another disaster, that could have led to a
full blown war.
And the fact that Mark Meadows has this like convenient, forgetfulness in this commentary.
I think really does show you something, and the fact that he's celebrating what Trump
did with Soleimani. Just shows you how Trump is just surrounded himself with yes men, who
refuse to ever, ever. Maybe give him a different perspective and tell him, hey, maybe proceed
with caution when you carry out this foreign policy move.
Because it could backfire tremendously. >> Yeah, I mean, it's just, it's the gasoline,
the gaslighting is just so thorough. Like I didn't see the context of it, was he corrected?
About the only administration thing, was he? >> I don't think so, no, not-
>> And what percentage of the people watching that thought?
Hey, wait, didn't that one terrorist I heard a lot about back in the day, didn't he? Didn't
he die? It's, again, you can say anything you want, and it almost never, 99% of time.
It doesn't matter, and nobody cares and nothing happens. Anything goes, it's 2020, get used
to it.
>> So let's fast forward to some more commentary on this, because Brian Kilmeade of all people
had some thoughts too. >> What's interesting is, John Kerry could
have toned deaf, when he talks about bloopers overseas. He's the one who broke his leg riding
a bike in France, when he should have been working.
And the guy he's endorsing, there's not enough editors in the world to put all his bloopers
together on one reel. >> Okay, so-
>> What's the bicycle thing, who cares? >> So of course, Kilmeade failed to mention
that Trump was at Mar-a-Lago, at the time that Qasem Soleimani was killed, right?
And the thing that like drives me crazy is how even today, they still make these arguments
against Obama. Even as Donald Trump does more of what they're criticizing Obama for. So,
hours before the US military sent a reaper drone to kill one of the most wanted men on
the planet.
President Donald Trump was relaxing at his palatial Florida properties. In the morning,
he played 18 holes at Trump International, his West Palm Beach Golf Club, okay? He also
failed to comment on any of Trumps golf trips amid the pandemic and there have been many
of them. I'll give you one of the headlines, this is by The Guardian on August 1st.
Trump heads to his own golf clubs, his COVID-19 surges and jobless benefits expire. President
makes 283rd golfing trip of his term, according to CNN count, as Coronavirus death toll passes
153,000. By the way, now we're quickly approaching 174,000 deaths, because of this virus that
has not been appropriately responded to by the Trump administration.
>> Yeah, last day of the report I saw was more than 1,400 reported in just one day deaths
from that, and yeah, 283 golfing trips. I wonder, Brett is a gigantic golf, or do you
think that he's golf 283 times in his entire life? I don't think so?
I don't think he could, yeah, it's insane. I don't get the bike thing about John Kerry,
doesn't matter. >> I was just gonna say, Brett's not president.
Brett can golf all he wants, as long as he's around to help me produce this show. I don't
know. >> No, 100%, but I'm saying, to fit that in,
in just a couple of years.
I don't know if I've done anything in 283 times in the past two years. It's just so
absurd, and the for how much Fox News made the fight against terrorism, the faux patriotism,
support the troops, all of that. They made that so, not just core to their message during
the big years of the Iraq war, but that was the entirety of it.
End of their politics, everything was about that. For them to not care when Osama Bin
Laden died, like it didn't even matter to them, it was so fundamentally fake. And to
now, basically be rewriting history and implying that it didn't happen, or at the very least,
it didn't matter that it happened.
Is just so bizarre, honestly, they're not expected to keep to literally anything, no
matter how core to their value system their ideology. It's all contingent on what's happening
today, what's convenient today.