RUSH: You know, Trump did not tell any Democrats — and you know what\u2019s fascinating, folks? If I may add. There are four reporters — and I don\u2019t remember all their names. Maggie Haberman is one from the New York Times, and there\u2019s another one at the New York Times, Schmidt, maybe. There\u2019s a couple from the Washington Post. And these four reporters are the primary reporters of leaks.<\/p>\n
And so they have accrued great reputations as having inside knowledge right inside the Trump administration. They\u2019ve got sources in the Oval Office. And not a one of those four reporters had any advance knowledge of the military attack on Baghdadi, and this thing had been in the planning stages for weeks and, in fact, you want to hear something brilliant? Not brilliant from me. You get me being brilliant every day. No, a brilliant strategy here.<\/p>\n
The announcement of withdrawing troops from Syria was part of the strategy to set \u2019em all up! And it worked! Look at all the people that fell in line. Every predictable Never Trumper Republican, every RINO Republican and every Democrat and the entirety of the media fell for it hook, line, and sinker. The Never Trumpers especially, they just couldn\u2019t contain themselves, writing about how Trump was turning over Syria to ISIS. By pulling the troops out, he was veritably handing Syria to ISIS. He was the epitome of incompetence. He was the epitome of a joke.<\/p>\n
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The Never Trumpers were out saying that this move by Trump proved everything they had ever been saying about his unfitness and lack of qualifications. And it was all a setup. Announcing the troop withdrawal — we\u2019re talking 50 American troops, advisers. But that was part of the strategy. It was part of the setup. It was part of setting up Baghdadi and his group. And it worked like a champ.<\/p>\n
But back to the point. You know, I don\u2019t want to gloss over this. This is something a lot of you might have been worried about because, you know, we\u2019re big on allies, and the Kurds have been our allies, and some of you might have been afraid that Trump was abandoning the Kurds. Now, I gotta be careful how I say this because I hate me-too-ism. But, folks, I don\u2019t doubt Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
You know, I don\u2019t live in the place where a lot of people do. I don\u2019t mean you, but there are some Trump supporters who believe that he\u2019s barely holding it together and one of these days he\u2019s gonna make the big mistake that we can\u2019t defend. You know the kind of people I\u2019m talking about. That\u2019s not me.<\/p>\n