Trump Takes Too Much Credit on ISIS
President Donald Trump said nearly all of the land once controlled by ISIS in Syria and Iraq has been retaken and “it all took place since our election.” But even the State Department’s senior envoy to the anti-Islamic State coalition said in December that half of the ISIS caliphate was recaptured under Trump’s leadership.
In remarks before the National Republican Congressional Committee on March 20, Trump said he would be campaigning against Democratic candidates who are “weak on terrorism, and weak on national defense.”
: And on terrorism, in Iraq and Syria, we’ve taken back almost
