Ex-CIA Director: Trump Is ‘Feeding’ ISIL’s ‘Recruitment Video’

General Michael Hayden, director of the CIA and former director of the NSA General Michael Hayden at Oxford Union, Oxford University, Britain - 11 Feb 2014 (Rex Features via AP Images)
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Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump may be aiding the Islamic State’s recruitment efforts with his fiery rhetoric about Muslims, according to a leading intelligence expert.

“The jihadist narrative is that there is undying enmity between Islam and the modern world so when Trump says they all hate us, he’s using their narrative … he’s feeding their recruitment video,” former CIA and NSA head Michael Hayden told The Guardian in an interview published Sunday.

Trump has offered up a slate of controversial proposals for combating the threat ISIL poses both at home and in the Middle East, including temporarily banning Muslim immigrants from the U.S., destroying oil reserves, and even using nuclear weapons.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has said the proposed immigration ban “only helps ISIL” while Hillary Clinton has echoed the sentiment that her Republican opponent was “becoming ISIS’ best recruiter.”

To date, clips of Trump’s remarks have been used in recruitment videos for both the Somali terror group Al Shabab and ISIL. The Al Shabab video, released in January, features Trump proposing “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” in the wake of the San Bernardino, California shootings. ISIL highlighted his comments on Brussels becoming “a horror show” in a new video produced after the city suffered a terrorist attack in March.

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  1. Terrible
    Repulsive
    Uncouth
    Manic
    Pendeja

  2. Although Hayden is correct that is no reason he should not be sent to The Hague.

    Trump’s remarks have been used in recruitment videos for both the Somali terror group Al Shabab and ISIL.

    I wonder when Drumpf will sue them for trademark infringement?

  3. This is enraging…and when I see the MSM gouge the money in so as to prop up this monster, I wonder just who is the real monster.

    For, make no mistake, if the planet is graced with the defeat of Trump at the polls, the corporate, for-profit structure ready for the next onslaught of misinformation, stoking and ginned-up info-tainment will still be intact.

    Just HOW does a nation control THESE people?

  4. Avatar for tao tao says:

    Republicans need some everlasting enemy for their everlasting wars of choice. Dubya and his “Bring it on.” remark taunted any and all possible enemies to join up. Trump seeks to add an entire religion to the hostilities. This is exactly the kind of bull jive that comes from a doofus that thinks his military school was the equivalent of a tour in Viet Nam. Who the hell does he expect to take on over a billion potential enemies?

  5. When the Military Draft was ended, this allowed men from 19-26 to basically remove themselves from giving a FUCK what Trump says. If there was a draft, Trump would not be able to do 10% of what he does. Moreover, IF THERE HAD BEEN A DRAFT, no 19-26 year olds would be stupid enough to claim that they would “sit” out" 2016, KNOWING THAT RAT-FUCKER DONALD TRUMP WOULD BE SENDING THEM TO THE WARS THAT HIS MINIONS WANT HIM TO WAGE.

    GEEZ!!

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