“Very brave men said goodby to their kids to go kill Osama bin Laden. We were given the order by President Obama. It was not a body double,” Robert O’Neill, the former Navy SEAL who allegedly killed bin Laden in a 2011 raid, tweeted on Tuesday. “Thank you Mr. President. Happy birthday @USNavy.”
"S**t. I just found out that I killed Osama bin Johnson. Drinks are on me, I guess…” he added in a tweet later that day.
O’Neill’s comments followed the US president’s Tuesday decision to retweet a post from a since-deleted account with reported ties to QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory movement.
President Trump retweeted a conspiracy theory from a QAnon account today that claimed Barack Obama accidentally killed Osama Bin Laden's body double.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 13, 2020
Nobody cared! Nothing matters at all! pic.twitter.com/fitHAnbbOi
Trump previously attacked Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden regarding the 2011 raid by SEAL Team 6.
“He opposed the mission to take out Osama bin Laden,” Trump said of his political rival on September 17.
“If it were up to Joe, bin Laden and [Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem] Soleimani would still be alive, ISIS [Daesh] would be still on the rampage, and China would now be the dominant power in the world – not America.”
O’Neill continued to subtweet Trump and his Republican supporters in a series of tweets issued on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The right: OMG, you killed a body double.
— Robert J. O'Neill (@mchooyah) October 13, 2020
Me: pic.twitter.com/BsXUkQtfAo
I know who I killed, homie. Every time. https://t.co/sGuf6ZMskw
— Robert J. O'Neill (@mchooyah) October 14, 2020
Every SEAL from the UBL Mission is alive while you are reading this. https://t.co/6mvAh37Cep
— Robert J. O'Neill (@mchooyah) October 14, 2020
Despite being an alleged war hero, the former Navy SEAL has received a lot of negative press in recent years for his 2016 DUI arrest, which resulted in lessened charges, and alleged belligerent behavior on a flight in 2018.
O’Neill was most recently banned from Delta Air Lines planes after he posted a picture of himself not wearing a mask during a flight, the Associated Press reported.
I just got banned from @Delta for posting a picture. Wow.
— Robert J. O'Neill (@mchooyah) August 20, 2020
“Thank God it wasn’t @Delta flying us in when we killed bin Laden... we weren’t wearing masks...” he said in a later tweet.
“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,” the airline said in a statement, as reported by AP. “Failure to comply with our mask-wearing mandate can result in losing the ability to fly Delta in the future.”
