Lonewolf

UPDATE: Unbelievably, the story gets worse for Trump. Hammill, Pelosi’s spokesman, released a statement Friday morning that read in part: “After President Trump revoked the use of military aircraft to travel to Afghanistan, the delegation was prepared to fly commercially to proceed with this vital trip to meet with our commanders and troops on the front lines.” The statement continued: “In the middle of the night, the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service provided an updated threat assessment detailing that the President announcing this sensitive travel had significantly increased the danger to the delegation and to the troops, security, and other officials supporting the trip." He added, “This morning, we learned that the Administration had leaked the commercial travel plans as well.” Hammill concluded,"In light of the grave threats caused by the President’s action, the delegation has decided to postpone the trip so as not to further endanger our troops and security personnel, or the other travelers on the flights."

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

Common_Sense_Matters

Source?

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

Are you living off the grid?

Lonewolf

Common_Sense_Matters

Making statements without showing corroborating evidence comes off as questionable at best and gives your opponent fodder for tossing bias claims back at you. It is always best to offer up backing sources, but then there is the other side of the coin, the fact that regardless of the validity of the claim or the reliability of the supporting evidence, true Trump supporters will not be swayed.

Still, I say including backing sources is the best practice, even if it has no chance of swaying the opposition, it will go a long way towards cementing support among your side and can help sway the fence riders like myself.

Common_Sense_Matters

Thank you, i have looked into that article and further researched a linked article, source is mildly left leaning but tends to back their claims with fact and limits the use of "loaded" words (meant to sway opinions) and is considered a reliable source (except for those at the extremes, left wing nut jobs as well as right wing nut jobs).

Here is one thing that stood out to me in the linked article I followed from your link (also a CNN story):



Each poster will have to decide for themselves the meaning of that quote from the CNN article I followed from Lonewolf's link, either Pelosi is using tried and true Trumpian tactics of making unsupported claims that later turn out to be false but Trump supporters continue to believe despite them being proven to be fallacies/lies, or she has sufficient cause to KNOW they did it but can't reveal how she KNOWS.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Just like causing American deaths in Syria...................by tweeting major policy change and announcing that ISIS is defeated.

emarine

Exactly & I'm sure it made Putin's day...

Fit2BTied Loc: Texas

What you won't hear from the left is how many servicemen and women would like to thank the President for preventing what, as I recall, was one of the worst ways to spend a few days...in other words, the dreaded VIP visit by someone you couldn't care less about. Everything has to be squared away to the Nth degree and those "lucky enough" to be selected to take part in the photo-op portion have to spend time learning proper protocol/etiquette for the event. I remember during basic training at Fort Ord CA, we had a visit from the Secretary of the Army. We spent 2 days working 20 hrs a day cleaning, painting rocks, manicuring the lawns, double waxing every floor, and making the place look better than it had in 50 years. We even cleaned UNDER the temporary buildings. There wasn't a cigarette butt in a 5 block radius of our barracks. When the day came, the chopper landed, the group walked into the BACK of the building (didn't see ANYTHING we did) into the mess hall, took pictures for about 15 minutes, asked a couple of specially selected soldiers (the photogenic ones) a question or two, then back on the chopper and gone. Secretary Resor - you, Sir, are still a very bad memory. For the troops who were saved from that, the President says "You're Welcome".

Lonewolf

yes the good old days hurry up and waite