The Navy SEAL who was a part of the team that killed Osama bin Laden expressed his fury over the U.S. Navy using a drag queen to advocate for Navy recruits.
Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, who performs as a drag queen named “Harpy Daniels,” revealed in a November TikTok video that he would serve as the Navy&#8217;s first “digital ambassador.” The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12044159/Navy-SEAL-killed-Bin-Laden-angry-Pentagon-using-drag-queen-recruitment-program.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">program</a> Kelley represented — for which he served as one of five digital ambassadors — ran from October 2022 to March 2023 and was designed to “explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates.”
“Alright. The U.S. Navy is now using an enlisted sailor Drag Queen as a recruiter. I’m done,” Robert O’Neill, who said that he fired the shot that killed bin Laden in 2011, tweeted. “China is going to destroy us. YOU GOT THIS NAVY. I can’t believe I fought for this bulls***.”
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Alright. The U.S. Navy is now using an enlisted sailor Drag Queen as a recruiter. I’m done. China is going to destroy us. YOU GOT THIS NAVY. I can’t believe I fought for this bullshit.
&mdash; Robert J. O&#39;Neill (@mchooyah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1653791382274994186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“You’re doing it wrong, @USNavy,” he added. “Talk to someone [who&#8217;s] actually done something! Not yeomen with t*** and a D***!”
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You’re doing it wrong, <a href="https://twitter.com/USNavy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USNavy</a> …. Talk to someone whose actually done something! Not yeomen with tits and a Dick !
&mdash; Robert J. O&#39;Neill (@mchooyah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1654025555228934145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Other social media users echoed O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s anger with comments like these:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;As a Navy veteran, I am ashamed on behalf of the US Navy. I hope that goes over as well as Bud Light did.&#8221;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;This is beyond disturbing. I’m a former military officer and I just can’t believe what our brass is doing.&#8221;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;An insult to every veteran and their families. My dad just rolled over in his grave at Arlington. I&#8217;m so glad he didn&#8217;t have to see this happen.&#8221;</li>
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“From joining to 2016 and being able to share my drag experience on my off time with my fellow sailors has been a blessing,” Kelley <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/ClCNuWJjy-o/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Instagram in November when he announced his Digital Ambassador appointment.
&#8220;This experience has brought me so much strength, courage and ambition to continue being an advocate and representation of queer sailors!&#8221; he told his more than 8,000 followers. “Thank you to the Navy for giving me this opportunity! I don’t speak for the Navy but simply sharing my experience in the Navy! Hooyah, and let’s go Slay!”
In his Instagram video, Kelley said he is &#8220;being the representation of people who were oppressed for years in the service.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/04/10/the-genesis-of-todays-recruiting-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Military Times</a>, the U.S. Army missed its fiscal 2022 goal by 15,000 soldiers while the other branches of the U.S. military, with the exception of the Space Force, “barely made quota or had to pull extensively from their pools of delayed-entry applicants.”
The Military Times added that military officials informed legislators the recruitment lag would worsen in the next fiscal year.
Mairead Elordi contributed to this article.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/navy-hires-active-duty-drag-queen-to-combat-sinking-recruitment">Navy Hires Active Duty Drag Queen To Combat Sinking Recruitment</a>

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‘I Can’t Believe I Fought For This Bulls***’: Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Blasts U.S. Navy Using Drag Queen To Recruit

Navy Seal Who Killed Bin Laden Blasts U.S. Navy Using Drag Queen To Recruit  

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The U.S. Navy, facing an uphill battle to recruit new members, decided one good way to go about the task is to deploy a drag queen influencer.
The Navy named Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley the first of five &#8220;Digital Ambassadors&#8221; for a recruitment program that lasted from October through March. Kelley dresses in drag and goes by the stage name of Harpy Daniels.
“Thank you to the Navy for giving me this opportunity! I don’t speak for the Navy but simply sharing my experience in the Navy! Hooyah, and let’s go Slay!” Kelley said in a post on Instagram. Kelley has also chronicled his journey of being a &#8220;non-binary&#8221; drag queen with the Navy through <a href="https://www.instagram.com/harpy_daniels/">Instagram</a> and TikTok accounts.
Kelley is part of a program “designed to explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates” as the Navy faces “the most challenging recruiting environment it has faced since the start of the all-volunteer force,” a Navy spokesperson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/critics-explode-over-us-navys-use-drag-queen-solve-recruiting-crisis">told</a> Fox News. The initiative was an attempt to &#8220;explore the digital environment to reach a wide range of potential candidates,&#8221; and it had concluded in April, a U.S. Navy spokesperson told The Daily Caller.
But why? Why does the Navy need a drag queen to recruit young men into the military? And why does the Navy need to lean into the debate about drag shows and LGBTQ expression, especially after the disastrous partnership between Bud Light and transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney?
None other than Robert J. O’Neill, a former U.S. Navy SEAL who was part of the Team Six mission that took out Osama bin Laden, blasted the military branch&#8217;s new drag-queen recruitment campaign.
&#8220;I can’t believe I fought for this bulls***,&#8221; he said.
O&#8217;Neill, who said he fired the bullet that killed bin Laden during the May 2, 2011, raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, went on a tear on Twitter on Wednesday, blasting out messages to his nearly 600,000 followers.
“Alright. The US Navy is now using an enlisted sailor Drag Queen as a recruiter. I’m done. China is going to destroy us. YOU GOT THIS NAVY. I can’t believe I fought for this bulls***,” O’Neill wrote.
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Alright. The U.S. Navy is now using an enlisted sailor Drag Queen as a recruiter. I’m done. China is going to destroy us. YOU GOT THIS NAVY. I can’t believe I fought for this bullshit.
&mdash; Robert J. O&#39;Neill (@mchooyah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1653791382274994186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A few hours later, he went further, <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1654025555228934145">writing</a>: &#8220;You’re doing it wrong, @USNavy &#8230; Talk to someone whose [sic] actually done something! Not yeomen with t*** and a [slang word for penis].&#8221;
A slew of critics also blasted the move. “This is beyond disturbing. I’m a former military officer and I just can’t believe what our brass is doing,” one former military officer said, Fox News reported.
“Not this Navy veteran. I’m ashamed of the Navy,” wrote another veteran. “It’s an insult to every veteran. The army kept making me go to trans EO-type classes before I retired. Nope. Didn’t go.”
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Meet the new face of the U.S. Navy…a drag queen. 
Non-binary Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley is one of four Digital Ambassadors hired to push recruitment drives for the U.S. Navy. 
Does this inspire you to join the navy? 
🎥 <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JesseBWatters</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/wkLNJMRQK6">pic.twitter.com/wkLNJMRQK6</a>
&mdash; Oli London (@OliLondonTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1654052842087350272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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And a few lawmakers were particularly peeved.
&#8220;Woke, partisan officials are projecting weakness abroad and divisiveness at home,&#8221; said Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), who serves as the chairman of the House Military Personnel Subcommittee. &#8220;The recruitment shortage is a serious crisis that we must address with serious solutions. TikTok videos of drag queens are just making a bad problem worse,&#8221; he told Fox News.
&#8220;Maybe the Navy should talk to Bud Light marketing and exchange notes about what NOT to do,&#8221; Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), a former Navy SEAL, wrote on social media.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Why On Earth Does The U.S. Navy Even Need A Drag Queen Ambassador?

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The U.S. State Department issued a &#8220;worldwide&#8221; caution alert for Americans Tuesday evening, warning that the likelihood that terrorists will strike U.S. interests has increased after the CIA killed Ayman Al Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s deputy and successor as leader of al-Qaeda.
&#8220;Following al-Zawahiri’s death, supporters of Al Qaeda, or its affiliated terrorist organizations, may seek to attack U.S. facilities, personnel, or citizens,&#8221; the alert said. &#8220;As terrorist attacks often occur without warning, U.S. citizens are strongly encouraged to maintain a high level of vigilance and practice good situational awareness when traveling abroad.&#8221;
The State Department said that it has reason to believe that the threat level to U.S. citizens is now &#8220;higher&#8221; after the drone strike terminated Al Zawahiri.
The warning said that Americans needed to be alert for the possibility of suicide operations, assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings, and bombings.
The advisory urged Americans to actively monitor local news and maintain contact with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate.
Terrorism experts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terrorism-experts-quickly-note-major-problem-as-biden-celebrates-cia-killing-al-qaeda-leader">quickly downplayed</a> Democrat President Joe Biden&#8217;s attempt to count the killing of Al Zawahiri in Afghanistan as a win for his administration, noting the fact that Al-Zawahiri having been in Afghanistan at all means that the terrorist group has returned to the country where they planned the 9/11 attacks.
During the chaotic pullout from Afghanistan last year, Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/08/20/remarks-by-president-biden-on-evacuations-in-afghanistan/">declared</a> that al-Qaeda was “gone” from Afghanistan.
“The killing of Al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri will be sold as a counterterrorism success. But that narrative masks the undeniable truth that Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is a safe have for Al Qaeda,” Bill Roggio, terrorism analyst at the Long War Journal, <a href="https://twitter.com/billroggio/status/1554266397836025856">tweeted</a>. “The strike that killed Zawahiri is the first since the U.S withdrawal 1+ months ago. The U.S. saved best for first, and made the first counterterrorism strike count.”
“Zawahiri was killed in the Sherpur neighborhood, in a home run by a deputy of Sirajuddin Haqqani. Sirajuddin is of course one of two deputy Taliban emirs as well as the interior minister,” he continued. “Zawahiri could not operate in Afghanistan – particularly in Kabul – without the consent of the Taliban. He wasn’t in the remote mountains of Kunar, Nuristan, or Nangarhar, or distant provinces of Ghazni, Helmand, or Kandahar. He was in the Taliban’s capital.”
Max Abrahms, an International Security professor, said that killing Al Zawahiri was not “the categorical win Biden says.”
“The Taliban was supposed to prevent Al Qaeda leaders from hiding out there for goodness sake,” Abrahms added.
“There was a reason that Ayman al-Zawahiri was in Kabul,” said Tim Kennedy, a former special forces operator. “Serving as the #2 to Bin Laden in al Qaeda he took advantage of our failed evacuation of Afghanistan and the power vacuum. It is a safe haven for terrorists all around the world. This is a byproduct of what we created.”

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A CIA drone strike in Afghanistan was successful in killing Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who has led the Islamic terrorist group ever since U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, according to reports.
Fox News anchor Bret Baier confirmed the news live on air Monday afternoon. He added that intelligence sources said that this was a big win for the U.S.
The Washington Post and Associated Press later confirmed the news of Al-Zawahiri&#8217;s death.
A senior administration official told reporters that “over the weekend, the United States conducted a counterterrorism operation against a significant Al Qaeda target in Afghanistan.”
“The operation was successful and there were no civilian casualties,” the official added.
Al-Zawahiri, who was one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, oversaw the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S.
Some experts believed that Al-Zawahiri was killed during an operation in November 2020 but a recent United Nations report from a few weeks ago said that he was “confirmed to be alive” and was “communicating freely.”
“Member States note that al-Zawahiri’s apparent increased comfort and ability to communicate has coincided with the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and the consolidation of power of key [Al Qaeda] allies within their de facto administration,” the report said.
The Taliban took over Afghanistan following Democrat President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdraw from the country last year.
The next in line the of succession is Saif al Adel, a longtime Al Qaeda leader and veteran, followed by &#8220;Abdal-Rahman al-Maghrebi, Yazid Mebrak, the emir of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and Ahmed Diriye, the leader of Shabaab, which is Al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa,&#8221; the Long War Journal <a href="https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2022/07/ayman-al-zawahiri-is-alive-taliban-and-al-qaeda-remain-close-un-reports.php">reported</a>.
Al-Zawahiri was an Egyptian physician who later started the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), which sought to overthrow the government and later merged with Al Qaeda in 1998.
An FBI most wanted <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/ayman-al-zawahiri/download.pdf">bulletin</a> of Al-Zawahiri noted that he had been indicted for his alleged role in the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.
This report has been updated to include additional information.

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U.S. Intel Kills Leader Of Al Qaeda Who Took Over After Bin Laden, Reports Say

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A Navy Seal famed for being a member of the team that killed arch-terrorist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/osama-bin-laden">Osama bin Laden</a> fired off a blistering message for the U.S. Navy, which created an instructional video about using the proper “gender pronouns.&#8221;
The Navy’s <a href="https://www.dvidshub.net/video/844401/navspeaks-pronouns">video</a>, modeled after a children’s show, is meant is meant to emphasize &#8220;the importance of using correct pronouns as well as polite etiquette when you may not be sure of someone&#8217;s pronouns,&#8221; according to the Navy, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/pride-month-heres-how-the-navy-is-training-sailors-on-proper-gender-pronouns/">The Washington Free Beacon</a> reported.
Robert J. O’Neill, who served on the team that killed Bin Laden, snapped, “Let me make it simple for the entire @USNavy: Your pronouns are shipmate/shipmates. There. I just saved the taxpayers millions by avoiding ridiculously useless training. Anchors aweigh.”
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Let me make it simple for the entire <a href="https://twitter.com/USNavy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USNavy</a> : Your pronouns are shipmate/shipmates. There. I just saved the taxpayers millions by avoiding ridiculously useless training. Anchors aweigh.
&mdash; Robert J. O&#39;Neill (@mchooyah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1539076888542564358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The video features two engineers from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Conchy Vasquez and Jony Rozon. Rozon says, “Hi. My name is Jony and I use he/him pronouns.” Vasquez follows, “Hi. My name is Conchy and I use she/her pronouns.”
“Using the right pronouns is a really simple way to affirm somebody’s identity,” Rozon says loftily. “It is a signal of acceptance and respect.”
“If it is a signal of acceptance and respect, how do we go about creating a safe space for everybody,” Vasquez asks.
“That’s a good question. A really good way to do that is to use inclusive language,” Rozon replies. “Instead of saying something like, ‘Hey, guys,&#8217; you could say, &#8216;Hey everyone,&#8217; or &#8216;Hey team.&#8217;”
“But what would I do if I misgender someone,” Rozon queries.
“I think the first thing to recognize is that it’s not the end of the world,” Vasquez smiles. “you correct yourself and move on or you accept the correction and move on. The most important thing I can tell you is you don’t put the burden of making you feel good about your mistake on the person you just misgendered.”
In June 2021, O’Neill slammed President Biden after Biden claimed at a press conference that white supremacists were a greater terrorism threat than al-Qaeda.
“We must not give hate a safe harbor. As I said in my address to the joint session of Congress, according to the Intelligence Community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today, not ISIS, not Al-Qaeda — white supremacists,” Biden said. “That’s not me. That’s the intelligence community under both Trump and under my administration.”
O’Neill fired back, ‘This is the most dangerously inaccurate statement I have ever heard from a president. More to follow, I&#8217;m sure.&#8221;
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This is the most dangerously inaccurate statement I have ever heard from a president. More to follow, I&#39;m sure. <a href="https://t.co/te3LHxfMIS">https://t.co/te3LHxfMIS</a>
&mdash; Robert J. O&#39;Neill (@mchooyah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1399852107755364353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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‘Ridiculously Useless’: Navy Seal From Team That Killed Bin Laden Blasts Navy Instructional Video On Gender Pronouns

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Robert J. O&#8217;Neill, the former U.S. Navy SEAL that killed Osama bin Laden, slammed Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) during an interview with TMZ over the weekend after Graham repeatedly called for the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
&#8220;As a sitting Senator, that&#8217;s not, he shouldn&#8217;t be saying that, there are backdoor channels,&#8221; O&#8217;Neill said. &#8220;I should be able to say it because, you know, I&#8217;m a civilian now, I&#8217;ve done, I&#8217;ve done my time. And Lindsey Graham he&#8217;s, you know, he&#8217;s been in just like everybody else in Washington, D.C., he&#8217;s been up there for 30 years or whatever. There are backdoor channels through the Senate Armed Service Committee which he is on, House Armed Services Committee is something else, you don&#8217;t need to come out there just to get views because you’re not trying to get ratings like a news station.&#8221;
&#8220;He can do backdoor channels, I disagree with him saying that, but it needs to be implied through backdoor channels,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But I mean, something needs to happen. … You know, I know Lindsey Graham, I wish I knew what he was thinking, but I mean, lately there’s been a lot of people on Capitol Hill, both sides of the aisle, that don&#8217;t really know what the hell they&#8217;re talking about.&#8221;
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<blockquote>ROBERT J. O&#8217;NEILL, FORMER NAVY SEAL: As a sitting Senator, that&#8217;s not, he shouldn&#8217;t be saying that, there are backdoor channels. I should be able to say it because, you know, I&#8217;m a civilian now, I&#8217;ve done, I&#8217;ve done my time. And Lindsey Graham he&#8217;s, you know, he&#8217;s been in just like everybody else in Washington, D.C., he&#8217;s been up there for 30 years or whatever. There are backdoor channels through the Senate Armed Service Committee which he is on, House Armed Services Committee is something else, you don&#8217;t need to come out there just to get views because you’re not trying to get ratings like a news station. He can do backdoor channels, I disagree with him saying that, but it needs to be implied through backdoor channels. But I mean, something needs to happen. … You know, I know Lindsey Graham, I wish I knew what he was thinking, but I mean, lately there’s been a lot of people on Capitol Hill, both sides of the aisle, that don&#8217;t really know what the hell they&#8217;re talking about.
TMZ: What advice would you give to someone who&#8217;s going to potentially take out Putin?
O&#8217;NEILL: I don&#8217;t, you know, I again, I would just say try to talk some sense into him. I again I think I literally think Vladimir Putin is losing his mind and whomever is the closest person to him should say something. Say something. Like I said, I&#8217;ve been to war I don&#8217;t like war. I killed Bin Laden, I&#8217;m not happy with murder. But someone has to do something about this because so many innocent people dying every single day in Ukraine and it&#8217;s a shame, it&#8217;s over nothing. It’s over nothing. Having said that Bin Laden had it coming, just saying.</blockquote>

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Navy SEAL Who Killed Osama Bin Laden Slams Lindsey Graham For Calling For Putin’s Assassination

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You may not know the name, but you know the guy.
Robert J. O&#8217;Neill was the SEAL Team Six member who took out Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks against the U.S. more than 20 years ago.
On the day after the anniversary, O&#8217;Neill posted a tweet on Twitter that went viral, getting 50,000 likes and more than 12,000 retweets.
&#8220;20 years after 9/11. The Taliban controls Afghanistan. The guy who killed bin Laden is on a no-fly list,&#8221; he wrote.
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20 years after 9/11. The Taliban controls Afghanistan. The guy who killed bin Laden is on a no-fly list.
&mdash; Robert J. O&#39;Neill (@mchooyah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1437135375978352640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Back in August, O&#8217;Neill claimed that he was banned from Delta Air Lines for not wearing a mask as mandated. The ban came after O&#8217;Neill took a selfie of himself on a flight with a passenger and a flight attendant in the background wearing masks with the caption, &#8220;I&#8217;m not a p***y.&#8221;
A few days later, he tweeted, “I just got banned from [Delta] for posting a picture. Wow.&#8221;
A spokesman for Delta confirmed the ban to The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-maskless-selfie-delta-airlines-bans-seal-who-killed-bin-laden">Daily Wire</a>, adding, “Part of every customer’s commitment prior to traveling on Delta is the requirement to acknowledge our updated travel policies, which includes wearing a mask.”
According to its <a href="https://www.delta.com/us/en/travel-update-center/coronavirus-travel-faqs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">website</a>, Delta requires masks for both employees and customers. “Delta customers and employees are required to wear a face mask, or appropriate cloth face covering over their nose and mouth throughout their travel, aligning with best practice guidelines from the CDC,” their COVID-19 FAQ reads in part.
O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s tweet drew scorn from the mainstream media, including from Dan Saltzstein, a New York Times deputy editor, who wrote, “I don’t know this guy but: counterpoint, you might just be because you’re not willing to sacrifice and be a little uncomfortable for your fellow humans (including that marine behind you)!”
Saltzstein later deleted his tweet and honored O’Neill’s heroism and sacrifice for his country, but maintained his criticism.
&#8220;I deleted a previous version of this tweet because I broke my own rule about name-calling. So let me try again: I honor O’Neill for his sacrifices to his country and his heroism. It’s sad that he can’t extend the same for the safety of his fellow passengers,&#8221; he wrote.
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I deleted a previous version of this tweet because I broke my own rule about name-calling. So let me try again: I honor O’Neill for his sacrifices to his country and his heroism. It’s sad that he can’t extend the same for the safety of his fellow passengers. <a href="https://t.co/DxlUluIdX6">pic.twitter.com/DxlUluIdX6</a>
&mdash; Dan Saltzstein (@dansaltzstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/dansaltzstein/status/1296126545841528833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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O&#8217;Neill has been a vocal opponent of masks. In other tweets reported by The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youre-not-willing-to-sacrifice-nyt-deputy-editor-scolds-seal-who-killed-bin-laden-for-not-wearing-a-mask">Daily Wire</a>, he wrote: “China told you to wear a mask. Look down… you’re wearing a mask. I’m not.”
“Make no mistake.. this ‘pandemic’ was sent to you by China,” he went on, adding, “Do you remember the complete, incompetent morons buying all of the toilet paper? They’re the ones telling you to wear masks now.”
“I’m not being rude… I’m just telling you facts,” he said.
O’Neill also told his many Twitter followers, “I know more about biological warfare than most of you. We were trained. These dumb a** masks do nothing. Nothing,” and insisted a bandana “does more harm than good.”
“I’m not afraid of the mob,” O’Neill wrote after facing backlash. “Come get some.” He also said in a series of tweets, “There is a time to act. Who’s with me?” and “I shook thousands of hands and gave thousands of hugs this week. I flew on some planes. I’ll be alive next week.”

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Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack against America that left more than 3,000 dead, was able to evade detection for nearly a decade.
But it turns out now that one little thing gave away his location in Pakistan, according to a new report.
Bin Laden, 54, was killed by U.S. special forces on May 2, 2011. And Peter Bergen, a national security analyst for CNN, said in “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden” that how the members in bin Laden’s compound hung out the laundry led authorities to his location, according to excerpts printed in the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/07/31/how-osama-bin-laden-was-found-by-his-familys-hanging-laundry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New York Post</a>.
&#8220;In 2010, the CIA got a break: A Pakistani informant in the crowded city of Peshawar spotted a man believed to be Ibrahim, bin Laden’s longtime bodyguard,&#8221; Bergen writes. &#8220;In August 2010, Ibrahim’s white jeep led the CIA to the property’s 18-foot-high, barbed-wire-topped walls. The place was packed with bin Laden’s three wives, eight of his youngest children, and four grandchildren, including 2- and 3-year-old babies.&#8221;
There were a number of oddities about the compound. For one, the occupants almost never left. For another, they never put out their trash for collection, but instead burned it all.
<blockquote>The property had many unusual features that made CIA analysts take note. It had no telephone lines or Internet service — despite the fact that whoever built it was surely wealthy enough to afford such necessities. The large main house had few windows, and the top floor’s open-air balcony was surrounded on all sides by a high wall.
“Who puts a privacy wall around a patio?” then-CIA Director Leon Panetta asked his staffers.  “Exactly,” one analyst replied.</blockquote>
A short time later, the agency set up a team in a house nearby to keep an eye on the compound. And that&#8217;s when they were able to figure out how many people lived there.
&#8220;[T]he final clue was the clotheslines on the compound, which flapped each day with women’s garments, shalwar kameez worn by Pakistani men, children’s outfits and diapers — far more than the 11 members of the bodyguards’ families could ever wear.
<blockquote>The invisible inhabitants, according to the agents’ laundry calculations, had to include an adult man, several adult women, and at least nine children, a perfect fit for the polygamous patriarch they were seeking.  After more than nine years in hiding, Osama bin Laden was betrayed by his family’s laundry.</blockquote>
The information was passed to Panetta, who on Dec. 14, 2010, presented it to President Barack Obama. Even though CIA agents never snapped a picture of bin Laden in the compound, &#8220;they also never found evidence that undercut the notion that he was living there,&#8221; Bergen writes.
Obama decided the data was cause to move, ordering the U.S. Navy to plan a raid that would end in his death. That was, Bergen writes, &#8220;a decision that might never have been made if Osama bin Laden had thought to give his wives a clothes dryer.&#8221;

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NatSec Analyst Unveils Detail That Revealed Location of Bin Laden, Family To U.S. Military

Just before President Joe Biden met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Osama Bin Laden’s niece made quite a scene, waving a “Trump Won” flag from a boat.
&#8220;Videos show Noor bin Ladin, 34, standing on a boat in Geneva Lake, Switzerland waving the banner,&#8221; The Independent <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bin-laden-trump-won-sign-geneva-b1867423.html">reported</a>. &#8220;The 9/11 mastermind’s niece has expressed her support for Donald Trump in the past, and has said she believes he won the 2020 election.&#8221;
In one of her Instagram posts, bin Laden can be seen holding up the Trump flag as officers on a Swiss police boat pull up to talk to her.
“You’re going to arrest me? If I don’t give you the signs, you’re going to arrest me?” she asks the officers, according to the U.K. paper. “Donald Trump won the 2020 election, and we’re not allowed here in Switzerland?”
Trump, in fact, lost the 2020 election — by a lot, being crushed in the Electoral College by a vote of 306-232.
Bin Laden has long been a supporter of Trump, endorsing him in 2020 in an interview with the New York Post.
“I have been a supporter of President Trump since he announced he was running in the early days in 2015. I have watched from afar and I admire this man’s resolve,” she said. “He must be reelected &#8230; It’s vital for the future of not only America, but Western civilization as a whole.”
Trump on Wednesday said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity that he &#8220;didn&#8217;t win&#8221; the 2020 election.
&#8220;We were supposed to win easily, 64 million votes,&#8221; Trump said in the interview. &#8220;We got 75 million votes, and we didn&#8217;t win, but let&#8217;s see what happens on that.&#8221;
Trump also ripped Biden over his summit. “We gave a very big stage to Russia, and we got nothing,” Trump told Hannity. “It was a good day for Russia.”
And Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster and longtime critic of Putin, says the former KGB agent &#8220;got what he wanted&#8221; in his Swiss summit.
Kasparov said on Twitter that the European Union &#8220;keeps caving in to Putin without American leadership. Biden was supposed to stop that, even campaigned on it. He called Putin a killer — correctly. But looking tough in Geneva or using strong words doesn’t matter. Action matters, and so far Biden is failing that test.&#8221;
&#8220;We know the summit is good for Putin, or he wouldn’t do it. And everything Trump did was about Trump. But Biden? It’s not about him. To give such a gift to a killer who attacked the US, you have to make the case to the American people and he hasn’t tried,&#8221; he told his 640,000 followers.
Gen. (Ret.) Jack Keane, former vice chief of staff for the U.S. Army, agreed, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-putin-summit-winners-losers-key-takeaways#">saying</a> on Fox News that &#8220;Putin, I think, got more out of it than he expected given the major concessions that were made prior to the summit, and that he was able to deny and deflect the major issues.&#8221;
&#8220;There’s not much evidence for President Biden’s objective to improve the relationship so that it’s more stable and predictable. It’ll take some time to see if that has been achieved, I think the early signs are that it has not,&#8221; said Keane, a Fox News senior strategic analyst.

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The Navy SEAL who killed al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden slammed President Joe Biden on Tuesday after Biden claimed at a press conference that white supremacists were a greater terrorism threat than al-Qaeda, the group responsible for murdering thousands of Americans during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
&#8220;We must not give hate a safe harbor. As I said in my address to the joint session of Congress, according to the Intelligence Community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today, not ISIS, not Al-Qaeda — white supremacists,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;That’s not me. That’s the intelligence community under both Trump and under my administration.&#8221;
&#8220;Two weeks ago, I signed into law the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which the House had passed to the Senate,&#8221; Biden added. &#8220;My administration will soon lay out our broader strategy to counter domestic terrorism and the violence driven by the most heinous hate crimes and other forms of bigotry.&#8221;
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NOW &#8211; Biden: “Terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today.”<a href="https://t.co/pXDeQuVusF">pic.twitter.com/pXDeQuVusF</a>
&mdash; Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) <a href="https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1399837556796276742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Robert J. O&#8217;Neill, who is credited with killing bin Laden in the years after the September 11 attacks, responded to Biden&#8217;s remarks by writing on Twitter: &#8220;This is the most dangerously inaccurate statement I have ever heard from a president. More to follow, I&#8217;m sure.&#8221;
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This is the most dangerously inaccurate statement I have ever heard from a president. More to follow, I&#39;m sure. <a href="https://t.co/te3LHxfMIS">https://t.co/te3LHxfMIS</a>
&mdash; Robert J. O&#39;Neill (@mchooyah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1399852107755364353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Biden also faced backlash over comments that he made about the ability of black entrepreneurs, saying that they have the same abilities as their white counterparts but they don&#8217;t have lawyers or accountants.
&#8220;Just imagine, if instead of denying millions of entrepreneurs the ability to access capital and contracting, we made it possible to take their dreams to the marketplace to create jobs and invest in our communities,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;The data shows young Black entrepreneurs are just as capable of succeeding given the chance as White entrepreneurs are, but they don’t have lawyers. They don’t have accountants, but they have great ideas. Does anyone doubt this whole nation would be better off from the investments those people make? And I promise you, that’s why I set up the National Small Business Administration that’s much broader, because they’re going to get those loans.&#8221;
Some of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-black-entrepreneurs-just-as-capable-as-whites-but-they-dont-have-lawyers-or-accountants">top responses</a> to Biden included:
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<li>Jeffrey A Dove Jr.: “Why is it that every time he speaks about the black community he makes us seem incapable of the simplest tasks? Whether it’s getting an ID card, using the internet to make an appointment or now this.”</li>
<li>Brit Hume: “How is this not a racist comment?”</li>
<li>Rita Panahi: “Biden &amp; his bigotry of low expectations…blacks can’t get ID to vote or use computers to book vaccine appointments or hire accountants when in business.”</li>
<li>Dave Rubin: “According to Joe Biden black people don’t know how to get an ID, hire a lawyer or find an accountant…and if they don’t vote for him they ain’t black. But yea, Republicans are the real racists.”</li>
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This report has been updated to include additional information.

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Navy SEAL Who Killed Osama Bin Laden Blasts Biden For Downplaying Terrorism Threat From Al-Qaeda

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The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden a decade ago disagreed with an assessment from a former Lincoln Project adviser who alleged that the Republican Party poses a greater threat to the U.S. than al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and the Taliban combined.
Robert J. O&#8217;Neill, who fired the shot that killed bin Laden 10 years ago this month, pushed back against MSNBC guest Kurt Bardella&#8217;s claim that the GOP are worse than terrorists because they are trying to remove Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from House leadership.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve never met him, so I don&#8217;t want to talk any trash about him,&#8221; O&#8217;Neill told local D.C. &#8220;Mornings on the Mall&#8221; hosts Vince Coglianese and Mary Walter on Friday. &#8220;He&#8217;s obviously an educated dude. I think he&#8217;s trying to get a soundbite, which he definitely did on this one.&#8221;
&#8220;Go interview them in Yemen, go interview al Qaeda somewhere in northern Africa or Syria, and tell me how that goes,&#8221; O&#8217;Neill urged, referencing a tweet he issued in response to Bardella. &#8220;And then go try to interview someone on the House side of the GOP. One side&#8217;s probably going to try to cut your head off, and the other one won&#8217;t.&#8221;
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I recently saw a pundit on MSNBC say the GOP is more dangerous than al Qaeda. I recommend he sets up interviews with both. Ya, know&#8230; see how it goes.
&mdash; Robert J. O&#39;Neill (@mchooyah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1390369531449774080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It&#8217;s so ridiculous, but again, it&#8217;s a talking point to get ratings to compare one side of the aisle to al Qaeda. But you don&#8217;t understand who al Qaeda is. I&#8217;m sure Kurt does, but that&#8217;s a silly statement. But he got what he wanted, you know. He got the likes and the followers.&#8221;
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Bardella, who used to work for Breitbart News and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) before becoming an adviser to The Lincoln Project, told MSNBC host Joy Reid this week: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been thinking to myself this whole time, you know, al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, the people who wanted to do harm to our nation and to our way of life and our democracy, they got nothing on what this Republican Party is doing.&#8221;
&#8220;The idea that a member of their party, of their leadership, who&#8217;s last name is Cheney, could be purged from their leadership for telling the truth about January 6, for telling the truth about a violent insurrection that claimed the lives of, among others, a Capitol police officer,&#8221; continued Bardella.
&#8220;The fact that people like Cheney won&#8217;t support the great lie that this election was rigged or there was voter fraud, the anti-Democratic forces are hijacking this party, purging one of the members who won&#8217;t abide by the party line, that is so detrimental and dangerous,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;We are a two-party system in this country, that&#8217;s how it was built for better or worse. When one of those two parties becomes this radicalized and when the core of the party&#8217;s ideology is anti-Democratic, that is a very dangerous development going to result in more violence, that&#8217;s going to result in more attempts to overthrow our government, that&#8217;s going to result in people losing lives just like January 6,&#8221; Bardella added.
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DERANGED: MSNBC contributor, former Lincoln Project guy, and GOP flack-turned-Democrat Kurt Bardella says Donald Trump and the GOP are WORSE and have done MORE damage to American than al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and the Taliban combined.
Joy Reid says nothing to pushback. <a href="https://t.co/WFSgKEjesf">pic.twitter.com/WFSgKEjesf</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1390134489658142722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Former Lincoln Project Adviser Claims GOP Poses Greater Threat To U.S. Than Bin Laden. SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Disagrees.

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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden told then-President Barack Obama not to launch a raid to kill Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who wanted to assassinate Obama because he thought if Biden were president, he would destroy America.
While on the campaign trail earlier this year, Biden falsely claimed that he never told Obama &#8220;don&#8217;t go&#8221; after bin Laden that day.
Biden had the following interaction with Fox News reporter Peter Doocy on Jan. 3, 2020:
<blockquote>DOOCY: “And to follow your remarks earlier, as commander-in-chief, if you were ever handed a piece of intelligence that said you could stop an imminent attack on Americans — but you have to use an airstrike to take out a terrorist leader — would you pull the trigger?”
BIDEN: “Well we did, and the guy’s name was Osama bin Laden.”
DOOCY: “And didn’t you tell President Obama ‘don’t go’ after bin Laden that day?”
BIDEN: “No, I didn’t. I didn’t.”</blockquote>
The Washington Post gave Biden&#8217;s claim &#8220;Three Pinocchios&#8221; which designates statements that contain &#8220;significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions&#8221; and that are in realm of &#8220;mostly false.&#8221;
&#8220;According to the various accounts of administration officials involved in the internal debate, Biden was one of the two main skeptics of the intelligence suggesting that bin Laden was in Abbottabad. He publicly even stated that he said &#8216;don’t go&#8217; until more intelligence was gathered,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/08/bidens-claim-that-he-didnt-tell-obama-not-launch-bin-laden-raid/">reported</a>. &#8220;So it’s certainly clear he advised Obama not to go at that moment when Obama’s advisers were debating the issue. No matter what he said to Obama privately, he cannot so easily argue that he did not offer this guidance.&#8221;
Bin Laden, on the other hand, wanted to push the U.S. into &#8220;crisis&#8221; by assassinating Obama and thrusting &#8220;totally unprepared&#8221; Biden into the presidency.
&#8220;In a letter, bin Laden wrote to a top Al-Qaeda official that he was instructing the Islamic terrorist organization to create two groups to watch for and target U.S. aircraft visiting the region that could be carrying Obama or then-CIA Director David Petraeus,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/declassified-docs-bin-laden-plotted-to-push-u-s-into-crisis-by-making-biden-president">reported</a>. &#8220;Bin Laden specifically instructed the terrorists to &#8216;not to target visits by U.S. Vice President Biden.'&#8221;
Bin Laden <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/osama-bin-laden-wanted-to-kill-obama-so-biden-would-be-president-declassified-docs-show">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him will automatically make Biden take over the presidency for the remainder of the term, as it is the norm over there. Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the United States into a crisis.</blockquote>
Bin Laden&#8217;s niece, Noor bin Ladin, recently <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/05/osama-bin-ladens-niece-says-only-trump-can-prevent-another-9-11/">told</a> the New York Post that President Donald Trump needs to win re-election &#8220;not only America, but Western civilization as a whole,&#8221; warning that Islamic terrorism &#8220;proliferated under the Obama/Biden administration, leading to them coming to Europe.&#8221;

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FLASHBACK: Biden Opposed Bin Laden Raid; Bin Laden Thought Biden Would Destroy U.S., Wanted Him To Be POTUS

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