{"id":389904,"date":"2018-12-20T19:27:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ive-been-campaigning-on-it-for-years\/"},"modified":"2018-12-20T19:27:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:27:32","slug":"ive-been-campaigning-on-it-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ive-been-campaigning-on-it-for-years\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ve Been Campaigning On It For Years\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cGetting out of Syria was no surprise\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>December 20, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Trump hit back at critics across the media spectrum Thursday, stating that he has long stated an intent to pull US troops out of Syria, and that it shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise that he has fulfilled another campaign promise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump took to Twitter after the media uniformly panned his decision to return US troops from the middle east quagmire, with even the usually Trump friendly Fox &amp; Friends slamming Trump\u2019s decision calling it \u201cstunning and irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Getting out of Syria was no surprise. I\u2019ve been campaigning on it for years, and six months ago, when I very publicly wanted to do it, I agreed to stay longer. Russia, Iran, Syria &amp; others are the local enemy of ISIS. We were doing there work. Time to come home &amp; rebuild. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MAGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MAGA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1075718191253504001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The President went on to state that no longer will the US act as the \u2018Policeman of the Middle East\u2019, but he will ensure the country has \u201cby far the most powerful military in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East, getting NOTHING but spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who, in almost all cases, do not appreciate what we are doing? Do we want to be there forever? Time for others to finally fight\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1075721703421042688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2026.Russia, Iran, Syria &amp; many others are not happy about the U.S. leaving, despite what the Fake News says, because now they will have to fight ISIS and others, who they hate, without us. I am building by far the most powerful military in the world. ISIS hits us they are doomed!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1075726666574544896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump\u2019s vow that it is \u201ctime to come home &amp; rebuild\u201d signals that the trillions previously poured into wars in the Middle East will&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/trump-slams-syria-pullout-critics-ive-been-campaigning-on-it-for-years.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGetting out of Syria was no surprise\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comDecember 20, 2018 President Trump hit back at critics across the media spectrum Thursday, stating that he has long stated an intent to pull US troops out of Syria, and that it shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise that he has fulfilled another campaign promise. Trump took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}