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Trump Just Sent Bizarre Tweet Claiming He’s ‘Working Hard’ In The WH, And That Syria Is ‘Fake News’

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Since he was unable to leave for Mar-a-Lago as planned yesterday because of the government shutdown, Trump is alone in the White House watching Fox News and that usually spells trouble.

Trump just tweeted, “I am in the White House, working hard. News reports concerning the Shutdown and Syria are mostly FAKE. We are negotiating with the Democrats on desperately needed Border Security (Gangs, Drugs, Human Trafficking & more) but it could be a long stay. On Syria, we were originally going to be there for three months, and that was seven years ago – we never left. When I became President, ISIS was going wild. Now ISIS is largely defeated and other local countries, including Turkey, should be able to easily take care of whatever remains. We’re coming home!

For some reason, it took Trump 12 minutes to send the second tweet after the first. BIG BRAIN.

Lawmakers are expected to convene Saturday afternoon on Capitol Hill after talks fell apart late Friday night. The shutdown started at midnight.

Washington was thrown into chaos after Trump told GOP leaders that he would night sign a bill to fund the government unless it included $5 billion to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The House passed a bill Thursday night with the $5 billion, but it did not have enough support in the Senate to pass on Friday. The path forward seems ambiguous as ever, with Senate Democrats signaling zero support for border wall funding.

Regarding Syria, against the advice of his senior advisers, Trump officially said he would withdraw all 2,000 American troops from Syria, claiming that ISIS — the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — had been defeated.

The U.S. began its involvement in the area in 2014 with airstrikes. Ground troops moved in in 2015 to help fight the Islamic State group and train Syrian rebels.

The decision was reportedly a “breaking point” for Defense Secretary James Mattis, who resigned on Thursday, and military leaders and experts have cautioned that ISIS still remains a threat and could gain new power in a country that remains torn apart by civil war.

Estimates put anywhere between 2,000 and 8,000 Islamic State militants in the country. At their height in 2014, the group controlled a third of territory in Syria and Iraq, including major cities in both countries.

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