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Sun Dec 23, 2018, 08:48 AM Dec 2018

Trump says he doesn't know his top ISIS envoy

Dem senator: Trump saying he doesn’t know his top ISIS envoy ‘should scare the hell out of every American’

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) expressed concerns after President Trump tweeted that he did “not know” his top envoy in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS).

“Uhhhh...you don’t know your own coordinator of the anti-ISIS campaign?” Murphy tweeted late Saturday. “Over the past 5 years, no one has done more to put ISIS on its heels than Brett (McGurk). We all know and rely on him. The fact that our President has no clue who Brett is should scare the hell out of every American.”

McGurk abruptly resigned on Saturday over disagreements with Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria.



https://thehill.com/policy/defense/422628-dem-senator-trump-saying-he-doesnt-know-his-top-isis-envoy-should-scare-the
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Trump says he doesn't know his top ISIS envoy (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Dec 2018 OP
Was he ever on Fox and Friends? oberliner Dec 2018 #1
He says he didn't know him modrepub Dec 2018 #2
Yeah, that was my joke oberliner Dec 2018 #3
McGurk was appointed by Bush, and kept by Obama Clash City Rocker Dec 2018 #4
So we're FUCKING scared Capperdan Dec 2018 #5
Open mouth, insert foot. Every time. Cousin Dupree Dec 2018 #6
First, Rump pretended he was the expert on ISIS. Mc Mike Dec 2018 #7

Clash City Rocker

(3,396 posts)
4. McGurk was appointed by Bush, and kept by Obama
Sun Dec 23, 2018, 09:13 AM
Dec 2018

Who met with him regularly, because he wasn’t completely incompetent at his job.

Mc Mike

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7. First, Rump pretended he was the expert on ISIS.
Sun Dec 23, 2018, 11:24 AM
Dec 2018

Last edited Sun Dec 23, 2018, 09:21 PM - Edit history (1)

He knew what a huge threat it was, and he called Prez O the founder of ISIS.

Then, he had to beg Obama's top anti-ISIS co-ordinator to stay in the job, because Rump had nobody in mind to take over the position. He had to keep the guy that worked for the 'founder of ISIS', in the anti-ISIS position.

Now Rump 'knows' that ISIS is beaten, mission accomplished.

But he also says he doesn't even know the guy who he had working on beating ISIS.

That's him all over. He lies like the boss's son. Any stupid lie he belches out of his pie hole is good enough for his fucked up flunky followers. He knows zero about anything, tells reality altering whoppers that contradict other reality altering whoppers he just told, all the time.

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