President Donald Trump defended his toughness against ISIS after 'Fox & Friends' host accused him of 're-founded' the terror group with his sudden decision to pull troops out of Syria.
'I’ve done more damage to ISIS than all recent presidents....not even close!' Trump wrote on Twitter Friday morning, just hours after the segment aired, throwing his press secretary onto the defensive on what is typically friendly terrain.
Trump's pushback came after host Brian Kilmeade brough back Trump's own words – including his past claims that President Obama 'founded ISIS.' Both presidents have ordered airstrikes and kept troops in the field to combat the terror group in a multi-year campaign that pushed back it's self-proclaimed caliphate and seized what had effectively been its former capital.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders taunted ISIS not to 'pick a fight' with President Donald Trump Friday – after getting tough questions from Fox News host Brian Kilmeade slamming the president's sudden Syria pull-out.
Kilmeade skewered Sanders Friday following Pentagon chief James Mattis' stunning resignation, saying Trump had 're-founded ISIS' by bucking Mattis and other military brass and announcing a troop withdrawal.
Sanders appeared on the program Friday amid reverberations from Mattis' harsh resignation letter, which defended U.S. alliances and split with Trump following his sudden announcement of a pullout of U.S. troops from Syria.
Kilmeade could be seen shifting in his chair in what started out as a softball interview with Sanders, who was out to defend the embattled Trump Whitehouse amid a looming government shutdown.
'Sarah, he is giving Russia a big win. Vladimir Putin praised him. He also is doing exactly what he criticized president Obama for doing,' Kilmeade pounced on the president's favorite morning program.
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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said ISIS is '99 per cent' defeated in Syria, days after President Trump declared victory. She was challenged on Fox News after the resignation of Defense secretary James Mattis
Referring to Trump, Kilmead said: 'He said president Obama is the founder of ISIS. He just re-founded ISIS because they got 30,000 men there and they are already striking back with our would-be evacuation,' Kilmeade continued. 'The president is really on the griddle with this,' he added.
'Brian, I have to respectfully and vehemently disagree with you,' Sanders pushed back. 'The idea that the president has had anything to do with helping ISIS reemerge is absolutely outrageous,' she countered.
Then Kilmeade, who wrote a book on Andrew Jackson and the battle of New Orleans, interjected: 'Leaving is helping. Leaving is helping,' echoing concerns inside the pentagon that the removal of 2,000 U.S. forces could provide relief to ISIS, while leaving Russia and Iran in power positions.
'Sarah, he is giving Russia a big win. Vladimir Putin praised him. He also is doing exactly what he criticized president Obama for doing,' host Brian Kilmeade told Sanders
Kilmeade could be seen on camera shifting in his seat when cohost Steve Doocey asked a softball question, telling Sanders of Trump's pullout: 'This is one of the reasons people voted for him'
Sanders stood for an interview with Fox after Pentagon chief Mattis flamed Trump in his resignation letter, and Republican lawmakers publicly stood with the Defense secretary
Sanders responded that Trump 'has put so much emphasis on rebuilding the strongest military on the face of the planet. If ISIS wants to pick a fight with somebody, they sure as heck don't want to pick one with Donald Trump. Because he will destroy them and defeat them,' she said.
'And he's has made that extremely clear. We have wiped out 99% of ISIS in Syria. The president doesn't want to be in the middle of a civil war in the Middle East and continue to put American lives on the line.'
Kilmeade interjected again,' saying 'The word on the ground is different from what you just said,' in a reference to the 30,000 ISIS fighters the Pentagon estimates remain in Iraq and Syria.
'If we need to fight ISIS again the president is not afraid to do that,' Sanders countered.
Co-host Ainsley Earhardt quickly cut off the interview. 'All right, Sarah. Thank you so much. We wish you a very, very merry Christmas,' she said.
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