Here’s what Trump’s own State Department said about U.S. troops in Syria just one week ago

This is awkward.

The Trump administration is planning for a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria on Wednesday, defense officials have confirmed. The announcement came just hours after President Donald Trump declared in a tweet that the Islamic State (ISIS) has now been defeated.

“We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency,” Trump tweeted.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later confirmed in a statement that “we have started returning United States troops home as we transition to the next phase of this campaign.”

View the complete December 19 article by Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani on the ThinkProgress.org website here.