Trump Claims Poll Numbers Have Zoomed 17 Points As He Defends Abandonment Of Kurds

And the U.S. military “did not have ammunition” when he “took over,” he explained.

In a fractured White House news conference Monday, President Donald Trump claimed poll numbers supporting him have jumped 17 percentage points. That’s despite an impeachment inquiry and the uproar over his decision Sunday night to draw down U.S. troops as Kurdish allies face a Turkish incursion into Syria.

It’s not known which poll, if any, Trump was citing.

Trump also insisted that the U.S. military had no ammunition when he “took over” as commander in chief, and he characterized the Kurds and the Turks as “natural enemies.”

View the complete October 7 article by Mary Papenfuss on the Huffington Post website here.