The White House on Wednesday struggled both to rationalize and to defend President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that morning that the United States would withdraw its troops from Syria because, as Trump wrote in a tweet, “we have defeated ISIS in Syria.”
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WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday struggled both to rationalize and to defend President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that morning that the United States would withdraw its troops from Syria because, as Trump wrote in a tweet, “we have defeated ISIS in Syria.”