December 16, 2024

Turkey controls the militants that ousted former Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said during a wide-ranging and at times incoherent press conference Monday.

“Those people that went in are controlled by Turkey,” he said during the event, his first press conference since winning the presidential election in November. “And that’s okay, that’s another way to fight.”

In answer to a question about the 900 U.S. troops currently in Syria, Trump began to speak of his decision to pull American soldiers out of the country during his last stint as president, before getting sidetracked and talking about Turkey and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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