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Sebastian Gorka: “President Trump, when He was the 45th president, roundly…”

Featuring: Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President, Senior Director for Counterterrorism | National

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Because the first Trump administration crushed the physical caliphate of isis. We'd been told by Obama for years, direct, quote, isis is, quote, a problem, a generational problem we have to live with. Well, President Trump, when He was the 45th president, roundly jettisoned that garbage, said, we are not going to live with a physical caliphate controlling territory in Syria and Iraq. We're going to unleash the US Military and destroy that caliphate, which we did in short order. But they're always stragglers, there's always survivors. When you squeeze the balloon, what happens? (27:36–27:49)

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Asserts that President Trump rejected the idea of living with an ISIS caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

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