Tutti i media si sono affrettati a pubblicare come buona la notizia dell'uccisione del leader dello ISIS. Sembra invece che il superterrorista si sia fatto saltare tempo fa. A chi credere? Un modo come un altro per distogliere l'attenzione del pubblico dalla slavina impeachment che si sta ingrossando ogni giorno di piu' sulla base delle testimonianze nelle varie hearings alla Camera.
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Don’t take Trump’s bait on Baghdadi
Late on Saturday night, Donald Trump tweeted “Something very big has just happened!” Based on the media reports that have since surfaced, Trump is planning to announce on Sunday morning that he ordered a U.S. military operation that took out ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. That’s fascinating, considering that by most accounts, Baghdadi has already been dead for years.
We’ll see what Trump ends up spewing in the morning, and we’ll see if there’s any evidence to back up whatever rabbit-from-a-hat claims he’s about to make. By all accounts Baghdadi hasn’t been calling the shots within ISIS for years (part of why so many observers think he died awhile ago), and if he had been hiding out in northern Syria all this time, then he definitely hasn’t been calling the shots. Considering the huge number of ISIS prisoners who were recently set free by Trump’s suspect military moves, and this is a wash at best for America’s security.
The thing is, it doesn’t matter anyway. The media will spent the next thirty-six hours focused on the Baghdadi story, until it sees that no one outside Trump’s base gives a damn about the announcement of the death of a little-known ISIS leader who has already been out of commission for years, and then the media will go back to covering Trump’s impeachment.
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