This October 19th post to The Huffington Post by
Scott Patton outlines recent reactive acts of President Trump regarding the
deaths of four special forces soldiers in Niger. It has been accused that the
President called the families of the fallen soldiers and claimed that the
soldiers “knew what they were signing up for…” after their deaths. Patton
attempts to argue why this makes President Trump into a “state of disgrace”.
Firstly, it can be observed that the author of this post is
very much in support of the opposition of Trump in this situation. He describes
the soldiers as “brave” and “honorable” and describes Trump as “disgraceful”
and “tarnishing”. Although Patton does a great job of using strong, descriptive
language, he lacks the evidence to support these claims. He quotes that Trump
said “If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t
make calls” but has no reference as to when or where this quote took place.
Additionally, he inserts this quote from the New York Times:
“Mr. Trump’s assertion belied a long record of meetings Mr. Obama held with the families of killed service people, as well as calls and letters, dating to the earliest days of his presidency. Before he decided to deploy 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, President Obama traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to greet the coffins of troops.”
With no context, one cannot find this quote or the article
it originates from.
At one point, Patton asks, “What will it take for Americans
to reject Trump and his administration? What will it take for the patriotic,
honest and heroic public servant to end service to Trump and party for service
to country? What will it take – the republic in ashes, destined to become a
contemporary Greek tragedy?” With these questions, he makes it clear that he
believes Americans need to essentially wake up from state of disgrace, but with
no evidence how can one even claim it is a state of disgrace?
This is certainly an opinion-based post.
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