Deep State Diplomat Lied To Trump About Syria On Behalf Of Military-Industrial Complex

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 Deep State Diplomat Lied To Trump About Syria On Behalf Of Military-Industrial Complex
November 13, 2020 By Jordan Davidson

Senior U.S. Diplomat and special envoy for Syria James Jeffrey repeatedly lied to the Trump administration about how many troops were stationed in Syria over the last four years.

“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey said in an interview.

While President Donald Trump announced late in 2018 that he would be withdrawing troops from Syria following the defeat of the Islamic State, Jeffrey, whose term ended on Sunday, and his team continually found reasons to prevent total removal from the region.

“What Syria withdrawal? There was never a Syria withdrawal,” Jeffrey said. “When the situation in northeast Syria had been fairly stable after we defeated ISIS, [Trump] was inclined to pull out. In each case, we then decided to come up with five better arguments for why we needed to stay, and we succeeded both times. That’s the story.”

While Trump eventually approved stationing between 200 and 400 U.S. troops in Syria to assist the U.S.’s Kurdish allies, officials estimate there are at least 900 troops there today.

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This is exactly why Trump started calling foreign leaders on his own for information.
This is why he stopped listening to his daily foreign briefing.
He knew they were lying to him. They were not telling him the truth.
They were telling him what they wanted him to think. All of them.
So he simply got the information on his own.
The Deep State and the Slavish American Media went crazy over this because they lost their influence.
Trump did not give a single damn.