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Search results for "President Trump has signed the new U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy"

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Alex Jones stated on March 23, 2024 in an X post:
“It is a fact that Obama created ISIS.”
By Sara Swann• March 28, 2024
Donald Trump stated on October 19, 2016 in a presidential debate:
"ISIS is in 32 countries."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• October 24, 2016
Rand Paul stated on March 06, 2013 in a tweet:
"The president is advocating a drone strike program in America."
By Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson• March 7, 2013
Kesha Rogers stated on March 19, 2014 in statements on her campaign website:
Says President Barack Obama was responsible for "the assassination of at least four American citizens" in drone strikes.
By Sue Owen• March 19, 2014
Donald Trump stated on July 21, 2016 in a speech at the Republican convention:
"In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map."
By Amy Sherman• July 22, 2016
Pete Hegseth stated on April 29, 2025 in an X post:
The federal government’s Women, Peace and Security program is a “Biden initiative.”
By Amy Sherman• May 6, 2025
Donald Trump stated on September 26, 2016 in a presidential debate at Hofstra University:
"NATO is opening up a major terror division. ... I'm sure I'm not going to get credit for it, but that was largely because of what I was saying and my criticism of NATO."
By Louis Jacobson• September 27, 2016
Elon Musk stated on February 02, 2024 in an X post:
Biden’s strategy is to “get as many illegals in the country as possible” and “legalize them to create a permanent majority.”
By Amy Sherman• February 6, 2024
Donald Trump stated on April 12, 2017 in a press conference:
On whether NATO is "obsolete."
By Lauren Carroll• April 12, 2017
Michael McCaul stated on January 11, 2015 in an interview on CBS "Face the Nation":
Western Europeans "can fly in the United States without even having a visa."
By Jon Greenberg• January 11, 2015
Paul Ryan stated on March 17, 2016 in a news conference:
"To this day, (the Cuban government) is a regime that provides safe harbor to terrorists and fugitives."
By Lauren Carroll• March 24, 2016
Martha Raddatz stated on August 24, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
The Obama administration originally "wanted 10,000 troops to remain in Iraq -- not combat troops, but military advisers, special operations forces, to watch the counterterrorism effort."
By Katie Sanders• August 24, 2014
Rand Paul stated on March 06, 2013 in a Senate filibuster:
"When (John) Brennan ... was asked directly … ‘Is there any geographic limitation to your drone strike program?’ Brennan responded and said, ‘no, there is no limitation.’"
By Molly Moorhead• March 12, 2013
Barack Obama stated on February 12, 2013 in the State of the Union Address:
"Throughout, we have kept Congress fully informed of our efforts" to create a legal framework on counterterrorism.
By Louis Jacobson• February 13, 2013
Julie Pace stated on September 11, 2014 in a question to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest:
The Obama administration is using as its "legal justification for these airstrikes (on the Islamic State), an authorization for military force that the president himself has called for repeal of."  
By Derek Tsang• September 18, 2014
Mike Pence stated on February 17, 2018 in a speech in Dallas:
Says that "along the southern border of the U.S.," the government apprehends "seven individuals a day who are either known or suspected terrorists."
By W. Gardner Selby• February 21, 2018
Pete Buttigieg stated on January 31, 2019 in an interview:
"I have more military experience than anybody who’s arrived behind that desk since George H.W. Bush."
By Tom Kertscher• February 12, 2019
Committee to Defend the President stated on January 31, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Mitt Romney voted against convicting President Donald Trump because Burisma board member Joseph Cofer Black “is Romney’s national security advisor” and because of ties to Obama CIA director John Brennan.
By Louis Jacobson• February 10, 2020
Donald Trump Jr. stated on January 22, 2021 in a tweet:
“Donald Trump is the first president in modern history (who) did not start a new war.”
By Noah Y. Kim• February 2, 2021
Barack Obama stated on July 19, 2008 in an e-mail from Obama spokesman Bill Burton to reporters:
McCain has switched to Obama's position on more troops to Afghanistan.
By Angie Drobnic Holan• July 22, 2008

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Obama's wartime presidency

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Fact-checking claims about the Islamic State

By Katie Sanders• September 2, 2014

‘Mother of all bombs’ dropped on ISIS target: What we know so far

By Lauren Carroll, Gabrielle Healy• April 13, 2017

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s 2023 CPAC speech about elections, immigration, economy

By Matthew Crowley, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 6, 2023

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s speech in Israel on same day as hostage, prisoner releases

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• October 13, 2025

Ted Cruz's 'Pants on Fire' claim about U.N. shredding First Amendment

By W. Gardner Selby• May 10, 2016

Biden’s misleading announcement that the United States is no longer at war

By Noah Y. Kim• September 23, 2021

Trump opens new chapter in America’s longest war

By John Kruzel• August 23, 2017

Congress cools to Obama plan for Gitmo

By Catharine Richert• May 20, 2009

Fact-checking the Jan. 11 Sunday shows

By Lauren Carroll, Jon Greenberg, Katie Sanders• January 11, 2015

Jeb Bush selectively recounts details of Iraq and ISIS

By Joshua Gillin• August 14, 2015

Obama ballyhoos Afghan stance

By Angie Drobnic Holan• July 22, 2008

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By Lauren Carroll, Jon Greenberg, Katie Sanders• January 11, 2015

Trump's travel ban executive order, take 2

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By Louis Jacobson• August 22, 2017

Can President Donald Trump send the military to secure the border?

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Fact-checking Donald Trump's United Nations speech

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Trump’s transgender athlete order includes an immigration fraud penalty. Why?

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