Fox News host Brian Kilmeade slammed President Donald Trump again on Monday for his decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria, The Hill reports.
Kilmeade, the co-host of “Fox & Friends,” said while interviewing National Review's Andrew McCarthy on Monday, "We’re not looking to settle a Syrian war. We almost lost the country of Iraq. They were outside Baghdad until we armed the Kurds and began providing intelligence and information for them.”
He added later, “What we're able to get with those 2,000 troops goes right to the FBI and NYPD and all these cities around the country, and they will show you what we've done. What President Trump has done is great. But what he is going to do is a classic America pull the foot off the throats early and it’s going to make everyone’s security more perilous.”
Trump announced last week that he will remove all American troops from Syria, a move that prompted Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to resign. A few days later, Kilmeade accused Trump of having “refounded ISIS” with his decision while interviewing White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
“He also is doing exactly what he criticized President Obama for doing. He said President Obama is the founder of ISIS,” Kilmeade said. “He just refounded ISIS.”
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