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Thursday, November 23, 2017
Trump tells US military ‘We’re really winning’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Donald Trump tells members of the military positioned across the globe that they’re winning big under his watch.
Trump says in a teleconference with the troops on Thanksgiving Day that more progress has been made in recent months in Afghanistan and in fighting the Islamic State group than had been made in years of the previous administration.
He says of the situation in Afghanistan that: “Everybody’s talking about the progress you’ve made in the last few months since I opened it up.”
Trump accused the previous administration of not allowing soldiers on the ground to do their jobs. But he says that now, “We’re not fighting anymore to just walk around, we’re fighting to win.”
He adds that, “We’re being talked about again as an armed forces. We’re really winning.”
— AP
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