I agree and disagree with Dale.
I haven't yet seen anyone say we *know* what Trump's tweet was about, though many note it implies an *offensive* force projection, rather than the purely protective mission Dale is refering to. How is providing security for an embassy "whoop-ass"?
I haven't yet seen anyone say we *know* what Trump's tweet was about, though many note it implies an *offensive* force projection, rather than the purely protective mission Dale is refering to. How is providing security for an embassy "whoop-ass"?
Mind you, @ddale8 *could* be correct that Eric Trump was erroneously referring to a security detail as opening a can of whoop-ass. Just so, the language of the tweet and the fact it was hurriedly axed *could* suggest it referred to an *offensive* operation, like an assassination.
@ddale8 What I disagree with is Dale implying that we *know* which of these two possibilities is true, or even which is more plausible. I'd argue that the language of the tweet and its sudden deletion suggests what Dale calls a "conspiracy" is actually the more plausible of two options.
@ddale8 Having said that, anyone saying "we know for sure" what Eric was referring to is wrong, so I certainly hope nothing I wrote implied I thought we *knew for sure* what Eric meant by "whoop-ass" and a sudden tweet deletion. But improper foreknowledge is at least a *likely* scenario.
@ddale8 PS/ I certainly *do* agree that Eric was replying to a security detail tweet. But I *also* know that major media has repeatedly reported that Eric is much more trusted within his dad's operation than most Americans know. So him having improper foreknowledge is all too plausible.
@ddale8 PS2/ One way to look at it is this: if *Eric Trump* thought his tweet was *clearly* referring to a new security deployment, he wouldn't have deleted it. So it would seem that at a minimum he himself acknowledges that his tweet looked like he had foreknowledge of an assassination.
@ddale8 PS3/ Jane wisely notes that Polititweet cut off the tweet that Eric Trump wrote, which is why I and millions of others on Twitter did not see the tweet Eric was replying to (I, like many, have Prosobiec blocked because he's a purveyor of lurid propaganda).
@ddale8 PS4/ FYI, here is a picture of the Polititweet archive I and millions of Americans saw: 
