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Ben Rhodes Invokes Bin Laden To Shame Trump — Then The SEAL Who Shot Him Spoke Up

Virginia Kruta Associate Editor
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Former Obama foreign policy advisor Ben Rhodes took a shot at President Donald Trump on Wednesday after learning that the White House had revoked former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance.

Citing Brennan’s involvement in the raid that killed 9/11 terrorist Osama Bin Laden, Rhodes seemed to suggest that proved Brennan was above reproach.

Robert O’Neill — the SEAL Team 6 member who went public as the man who fired the shots that killed Bin Laden — fired back at Rhodes, making an apparent reference to the other operators who carried out the mission alongside him.

O’Neill, who called out President Obama in 2015 for his “lack of strategy” in dealing with ISIS, has also not been shy about criticizing President Trump, particularly regarding his plan to hold a military parade.

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