Trump Cribs War Plan from ISIS ‘Founder’

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Trump Cribs War Plan from ISIS ‘Founder’

Written by Tim Mak and Nancy A. Youssef at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/15/trump-cribs-war-plan-from-isis-founder.html

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It was a speech that has become emblematic of Trump’s outreach to voters: deeply pessimistic, loose with the truth, and entirely unspecific.

“They’re trying to make it look much better than it is. It’s bad,” Trump said, referring to the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign’s assessment of ISIS. He noted U.S. Central Command’s overly optimistic reports on the rising ISIS threat and the internal strife that created, much of which was first reported by The Daily Beast.

But while Republican nominee’s address in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday, was billed as a speech describing new ways to defeat ISIS—in recent weeks ISIS has seen serious setbacks.

Trump’s denounced the situation in Libya, which he blamed on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. But ISIS’s grip there is changing rapidly. ISIS appears to be on the verge of losing its African capital in the city of Sirte to local militia fighters who lately have been bolstered by U.S. airstrikes.



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