The strike on an al qaeda camp was first us special forces operation since mr trump.
Trump yemen situation room.
Local time when the firefight in yemen resulted in the deaths of some 30 people according to news reports.
Impeach trump now the stunning admission comes directly from bumbling white house press secretary sean spicer himself who inexplicably blurted out during his briefing that the president was in the residence during the time of the yemen raid.
Feb 4 2017 getty.
Was a photo of trump in the white house situation room staged.
The president was here in the residence.
Critics claimed a picture of president trump watching a raid in syria unfold from the white house was actually taken after the fact.
Trump s first military.
That s the hour 1 30 a m.
Trump ordered ryan s seal team into yemen not from the situation room with all the intelligence assembled but sitting across a dinner table with steve bannon bill owens a veteran.
But now it turns out he may not have even received any advice because he wasn t in the situation room.
The photo invites comparisons to the situation room photo released by president barack obama s white house following the may 2011 operation in which navy seals killed bin laden.
News world americas donald trump not in situation room for botched yemen raid that killed up to 30 civilians and one us navy seal.
The seal s father says it was a screw up from the start.
The strike on an al qaeda camp was first us special forces.
Bizarrely trump ordered the strike in the early morning hours last sunday but he wasn t in the situation room when it happened.
Spicer though has not specifically said what trump was doing between 5 30 p m.
The trump administration insists a raid into yemen that cost the life of a navy seal was a success.