This week, conservative lawmakers and commentators persuaded President Trump to pull a last-minute about-face in the government shutdown debate. Kilmeade even went so far as to say that the president was paving the way for a revitalized Islamic State, also known as ISIS. “He said President Obama is the founder of ISIS; he just re-founded ISIS, because they have 30,000 men there and they are already striking back with our would-be evacuation. She noted the Trump administration’s very real success in beating back ISIS in Syria. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018(Side note: As Trump’s own “founder of ISIS” talking point noted, the terrorist group didn’t really exist, as currently constituted, before the Obama administration.

Source: Washington Post December 21, 2018 16:46 UTC