ABC NEWS Drama Continues, And “That’s The Way It Goes”

Trump shredded ABC NEWS’ Jonathan Karl during today’s White House press conference.

It was almost like watching a whiny disgruntled child arguing with his Dad and refusing to zip it, and then watching his Dad respond: “Okay, stop. Remember, I’m the boss. Now hand over your phone and go back to your room, you’re grounded.”

Today is Day 3 since the news hit about ABC NEWS’ disastrous FAKE VIDEO on Syria, and this continued behavior among their senior reporters makes it seem like they’re in panic mode – I wonder why.

Jonathan Karl dove right in with a deceptive question about Turkey and Syria and Trump went in for the win. Click here for coverage on today’s presser from The Gateway Pundit.

PART 1

https://twitter.com/JeffDeRiso/status/1184528606225145856?s=20

Trump was holding the presser with Italian President Sergio Mattarella. When he took questions, Karl asked if the president regretted giving Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan “a green light to invade Syria.”

“I didn’t give him a green light,” Trump said. “When you make a statement like that, it’s so deceptive. Just the opposite of a green light. First of all, we had virtually no soldiers there. They were mostly gone, just a tiny little group. They would have been in harm’s way. You have a massive army on the other side of the border. But, more importantly, I didn’t give them a green light.”

Then came the hammer from Trump:

“When you ask a question like that, it’s very deceptive, John. It’s almost as deceptive as you showing all of the bombings taking place in Syria and it turned out that the bombing that you showed on television took place in Kentucky. I’m not even sure that ABC apologized for that, but I’m certain it was a terrible thing. I’m looking at this, I say wow that’s pretty bad, and it was in Kentucky, it wasn’t in Syria.”

Karl refused to stand down on his badgering of the president, asking follow up questions, after follow up.  He avoided Trump’s remarks about ABC’s fake video and went on to make a point by trying to leverage Lindsey Graham’s stance on Trump’s decisions with Turkey and Syria. Karl pushed Trump regarding the opinion that “leaving Syria will be a disaster worse than Obama’s decision to leave Iraq.”

Trump responded that Lindsey Graham should instead focus on Judiciary to find out what happened with Comey and McCabe, and Strzok, AND OBAMA, AND BRENNAN. “That’s what Lindsey ought to focus on.”

PART 2

https://twitter.com/JeffDeRiso/status/1184530202954813445?s=20

CNSNEWS.com also covered Trumps Q&A with Karl during today’s presser.

TRUMP: The people of South Carolina don’t want us to get into a war with Turkey, a NATO member, or with Syria.

Let them fight their own wars. They’ve been fighting for a thousand years. Let them fight their own wars.

I’m not going to get involved in a war between Turkey and Syria, especially when if you look at the Kurds, and again I say this with great respect, they’re no angels.

If you look at PKK. Take a look at PKK. ISIS respects PKK. You know why? Because they’re as tough or tougher than ISIS.

Just so you understand, we were the ones that captured ISIS. People let some go to make us look as bad as possible. We have a situation where Turkey is taking land from Syria. Syria’s not happy about it. Let them work it out. We shouldn’t be over there, and you should get your accounts correct and you shouldn’t be showing buildings blowing up in Kentucky and say it’s Syria because that really is fake news.

With that, Trump attempted to shut Karl down, but wait, there’s more.

DISGRUNTLED. KARL. KEPT. GOING.

PART 3

https://twitter.com/JeffDeRiso/status/1184533513174966273?s=20

KARL: You don’t think the country’s worried about ISIS? You mentioned earlier you think some of the countries might hate ISIS more than the United States.

TRUMP: Absolutely. Russia hates ISIS as much as the United States does. Iran hates ISIS. I mean, we’re fighting a war for Russia, we’re fighting a war for Iran? You look at Syria. Syria hates ISIS. We’re over there killing ISIS. Don’t forget; we’re 7,000 miles away. So we’re killing ISIS, we’re 7,000 miles away. Russia’s much closer. Iran is right there, Turkey is right there. They all hate ISIS. Turkey a little bit less so, but the others very much.

I love how Trump so swiftly adds in these lines to his overarching statements. “They all hate ISIS–Turkey a little bit less so–but the others very much…” I’m surprised Trump didn’t ask why no one is talking about Turkey’s and Erdogan’s ties to ISIS.

TRUMP: Russia had a plane blown up by ISIS. Russia wants nothing to do with ISIS. Russia’s tough. They can kill ISIS just as well, and they happen to be in their neighborhood. All I’m saying is this; I’m not going to lose potentially thousands and tens of thousands of American soldiers fighting a war between Turkey and Syria. Syria’s not our friend. Assad is not our friend. That’s the way it goes.

KARL: You said you withdrew 28 troops.

TRUMP: 28. They say it was 28. We thought it was 50 but it was about 28. Nobody injured. Listen, all accounted for, nobody injured, nobody missing. It’s really nice.

KARL Look at what’s happened since those troops were withdrawn since you’ve had that conversation with President Erdogan.

TRUMP: You know what’s happened? No American soldiers have been killed. That’s what’s happened, and other people will go in, and very easy to recapture those people that probably the Kurds let go to make a little bit stronger political impact. That’s okay. I fully understand it, but that’s the way it goes. We’re bringing our soldiers back home, and we’ve done a great job. We were supposed to be in Syria for one month. That was 10 years ago, and we’ve been a police force. It’s time to bring our soldiers back home. That’s the way it is. We’ve had no soldiers injured or hurt. That’s because I’m president. We’re the boss, just remember that. We have the most powerful military in the world by far.

FINALLY, Karl sat down after behaving like a jackwagon.

How about those closing words from Trump to Jonathan Karl (and ABC): “We’re the boss, just remember that. We have the most powerful military in the world by far.”

AND THAT’S THE WAY IT GOES.