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‘TREMENDOUS DISAPPOINTMENT’

Donald Trump Threatens European Nations That U.S. Taxpayers Won’t Keep Their ISIS Fighters

The president said that U.S. taxpayers would not be paying to keep European ISIS fighters locked up.

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By Barbie Latza Nadeau

President Donald Trump said that the European nations had been a “tremendous disappointment” for refusing to take back captured Islamic State fighters currently being held in Syria. The not-so-veiled threat seemed to suggest that the president was ready to release them if countries like France, Germany and the U.K. didn’t repatriate them soon. “My people called a lot and said take your ISIS fighters,” he said during this Sunday address in which he detailed the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a Saturday raid. He then said, “The U.S. tax payer isn’t going to pay to look after other countries’ ISIS fighters.”

Read it at Guardian

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