Trump Puzzlingly Says Clinton Has Been Fighting ISIS Her ‘Entire Adult Life’

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the presidential debate Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Hillary Clinton called for the audience to consult fact checkers during Monday’s presidential debate after Donald Trump puzzlingly told her she has been fighting the Islamic State terror group her “entire adult life.”

Clinton said that she turned her campaign website into a fact checker for the night out of concern that Trump would make a lot of “charges and claims,” prompting Trump to tell the audience to go to his website instead.

“Go to her website,” the GOP nominee continued. “She tells you how to fight ISIS on her website. I don’t think General MacArthur would like that.”

“At least we have a plan,” Clinton retorted.

“You’re telling the enemy everything you want to do,” Trump said.

“No, I’m not,” the former secretary of state insisted.

“No wonder you’ve been fighting ISIS your entire adult life,” he replied, prompting Clinton to make a puzzled expression and urge voters to check Trump’s claim.

ISIL first emerged in the late 1990s but did not gain traction until the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, which destabilized the region and allowed the group to expand.

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  1. What’s puzzling is that some people think this moron is qualified to be President of the United States. He is barely speaking English! “Bigly”?? “Very anti-police judge”?? I’m really pulling for him to have a stroke before the end of the evening.

  2. He just shaved a couple of decades off her age! Way to go Donny.

  3. Has he done something new with his hair?

  4. That is where the moderator should have had a little pants on fire sign light up right behind Trump.
    Give him a couple of deceivious answers and a few half truths but this is a flamingly ridiculous claim. It doesn’t need fact checking, it needs a fire extinguisher.

  5. I believe he is saying “Big League” and has used the term so much it has worn a fissure on his tongue and it comes out ‘Big’Ly’ sounding for all the world like ‘bigly.’ And here is his stroke, just for you.

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