Trump lied about al-Baghdadi's "whimpering and crying and screaming" final moments

It was a vivid scene worthy of the ending of a Hollywood thriller, the image of a ruthless terrorist mastermind finally brought to justice “whimpering and crying and screaming all the way” to his death. But it may be no more true than a movie script.

In the days since President Donald Trump gave the world a graphic account of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s last minutes, no evidence has emerged to confirm it. The secretary of defence, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the regional commander who oversaw the operation that killed the leader of Isis all say they have no idea what the president was talking about.

Four other Defence Department officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to share details of the raid, said they had seen no after-action reports, situation reports or other communications that support Mr Trump’s claim. Nor did they have any indication that Mr Trump spoke with any of the Delta Force commandos or ground commanders in the hours between the Saturday night raid and his Sunday morning televised announcement.

Ben Reilly wrote:

It was a vivid scene worthy of the ending of a Hollywood thriller, the image of a ruthless terrorist mastermind finally brought to justice “whimpering and crying and screaming all the way” to his death. But it may be no more true than a movie script.

In the days since President Donald Trump gave the world a graphic account of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s last minutes, no evidence has emerged to confirm it. The secretary of defence, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the regional commander who oversaw the operation that killed the leader of Isis all say they have no idea what the president was talking about.

Four other Defence Department officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to share details of the raid, said they had seen no after-action reports, situation reports or other communications that support Mr Trump’s claim. Nor did they have any indication that Mr Trump spoke with any of the Delta Force commandos or ground commanders in the hours between the Saturday night raid and his Sunday morning televised announcement.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-al-baghdadi-death-isis-whimpering-crying-terrorist-isis-a9182026.html

First of all, that he would even go into that level of detail about a human being's death in a televised address is disgusting.

But then for it to turn out to have been a lie -- even more mind-bogglingly outrageous!