'He just re-founded ISIS!': Fox & Friends host humiliates Sarah Sanders live on air using Trump's own words

'He just re-founded ISIS!': Fox & Friends host humiliates Sarah Sanders live on air using Trump's own words
The Right Wing

Brian Kilmeade, the host of President Donald Trump's favorite morning show, "Fox & Friends," ripped into the president over his abrupt announcement that he wants to withdraw all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria— a decision Kilmeade warned would allow the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, to re-establish its reduced power.


In a conversation with White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday, Kilmeade let loose: "Sarah, he's giving Russia a big win. Vladimir Putin praised him. He's also doing exactly what he criticized President Obama for doing. He said President Obama was the founder of ISIS. He just refounded ISIS."

Trump, during the 2016 presidential campaign, accused former President Barack Obama of being the "founder of ISIS" because of the power vacuum critics content Obama established after he withdrew U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011. "He was the founder," Trump said at the time. "His, the way he got out of Iraq was that that was the founding of ISIS, okay?"

Kilmeade noted that ISIS still has thousands of fighters in the region despite the fact it's power has been diminished due to a loss of territory across Iraq and Syria. "The president is really on the griddle with this," Kilmeade said.

Sanders, who appeared somewhat surprised and amused at Kilmeade's claim, replied, "Brian, I have to respectfully and vehemently disagree with you."

"The idea that the president has had anything to do with helping ISIS reemerge is absolutely outrageous," Sanders added.

Kilmeade, who often defends Trump on television, then said, "Leaving is helping."

Sanders continued to push back, stating that if ISIS wants to "pick a fight" with Trump then he will "destroy them and defeat them."

In a searing insult to Trump's ego, Kilmeade compared Trump's announcement to Obama's attempts to get troops out of Iraq: "He is doing exactly, if not worse, than what President Obama did."

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