- ‘Fox & Friends’ co-host Brian Kilmeade complained on the air that Turkey is ‘carving up the Kurds’
- He blamed Donald Trump for withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria
- President was watching, and vented on Twitter that Kurds may be releasing ISIS prisoners on purpose in order to draw him back in
- Trump complained that European nations whose citizens joined ISIS and were later captured in Syria should take them back
Donald Trump lashed out at a Fox News Channel host on Monday for saying Turkey is ‘carving up the Kurds’ after the president ordered American forces to begin ‘moving out’ of Syria.
‘Brian Kilmeade over at @foxandfriends got it all wrong,’ the president complained on Twitter. He also claimed Kurds in northern Syria ‘may be releasing some’ ISIS fighters from their prisons as a tactic to draw the U.S. military back in.
The militants, he said, would be ‘[e]asily recaptured by Turkey or European Nations from where many came, but they should move quickly.’
The Turkish onslaught in Syria has raised fears that ISIS fighters and their families held by the Kurdish-led forces previously allied with Washington might escape and reorganize the terrorist group. Hundreds are said to have escaped already.
Kilmeade and his two ‘Fox & Friends’ co-hosts, Ainsley Earhardt and Steve Doocy, began the 7:00 a.m. hour on Monday with a news alert about a coming Turkish incursion aimed at driving Kurdish-led fighters from the Syrian town of Manbij.