Better than anyone · First term · № 33

Nobody knows more

Knew more about ISIS captives than the pundits

“So I'm the one that did the capturing. I'm the one that knows more about it than you people or the fake pundits.”

Said

October 21, 2019, Cabinet meeting, the White House

Subject

ISIS prisoners in Syria

Topic

Foreign policy

Era

First term

What the record showed

He was answering questions about ISIS detainees after the U.S. pullback from northern Syria and Turkey's offensive. On October 13, 2019, Reuters reported that around 100 people—women affiliated with Islamic State and their children—had escaped from the Ain Issa camp guarded by Kurdish-led forces after it was shelled, with the Syrian Observatory describing "anarchy" inside.

Sources

1. Remarks During a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange With Reporters The American Presidency Project, Oct 21, 2019
2. Syrian Observatory: 100 people escape camp holding Islamic State relatives Reuters, Oct 13, 2019