{"id":197033,"date":"2019-10-28T11:58:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T11:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197033"},"modified":"2019-11-02T07:01:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T07:01:33","slug":"photo-of-trump-watching-baghdadi-raid-was-staged-former-white-house-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=197033","title":{"rendered":"Photo of Trump watching Baghdadi raid was staged: Former White House photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Press TV \u2013 Oct 28, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_197034\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Trump-and-commanders-watch-al-Baghdadi-raid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197034\" class=\"wp-image-197034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Trump-and-commanders-watch-al-Baghdadi-raid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Trump-and-commanders-watch-al-Baghdadi-raid.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Trump-and-commanders-watch-al-Baghdadi-raid-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-197034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: National Security Adviser Robert O&#8217;Brien, Vice President Mike Pence, President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff US Army General Mark Milley and Brig General Marcus Evans are seen Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in the Situation Room of the White House. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>A former White House photographer puts into question the shooting time of a photo in which US President Donald Trump and his advisers are said to be monitoring the operation of killing Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Pete Souza, the chief official White House photographer for former presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, tweeted that the photo released by the White House of Trump in the Situation Room alongside US military top brass monitoring the raid did not match up with the reported time of the raid.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AwTJuLs4um\">pic.twitter.com\/AwTJuLs4um<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Scavino Jr.?? (@Scavino45) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scavino45\/status\/1188451497421561856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Souza, an outspoken critic of Trump, said the timestamp showed it was taken at 17.05 p.m. on Saturday \u2013 more than 90 minutes after the 3.30 p.m. raid reportedly happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There were also tabloids claiming that the US president was golfing at the time of the operation and that he returned to the White House at 3.33 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Some others suggested that the photo was released to be compared with the photograph of Obama intently watching the killing of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48014\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Obama-VP-Biden-and-Hilary-Clinton-watch-the-raid-on-bin-Ladens-compound.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48014\" class=\"wp-image-48014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Obama-VP-Biden-and-Hilary-Clinton-watch-the-raid-on-bin-Ladens-compound.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obama, Biden and Hilary Clinton watch the raid on bin Laden&#8217;s compound via satelitte, allegedly. There were also suspicions that this photo was staged too. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Souza also said it was possible that the operation continued through the time the photo was taken.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s entirely possible that the raid was still going on at 5:05 p.m. Before drawing definite conclusions about the photo, reporters need to nail down the actual timeline of the raid.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Trump said he watched the operation alongside Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and a few others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He marveled at the quality of the video feed, telling reporters it was &#8220;like a movie.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On Saturday, Newsweek reported that the United States military had conducted a special operations raid against the ringleader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to a senior Pentagon official familiar with the operation and Army official briefed on the matter, a &#8220;high value ISIS (Daesh) target&#8221; &#8211; believed to be Baghdadi &#8211; was targeted during a top-secret operation in Syria&#8217;s northwestern Idlib province earlier on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Joint Special Operations Command carried out the raid after receiving actionable intelligence, according to sources familiar with the operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2019\/10\/28\/609770\/US-Donald-Trump-Abu-Bakr-alBaghdadi-daesh\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like the photo of Obama and Clinton watching the video feed of bin Laden&#8217;s death was suspected of having been staged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,19,61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_war_on_terror","category-Behind_The_News","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197038,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197033\/revisions\/197038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}