Trump—who knows more than the generals—will ask them for an ISIS plan

Laura Clawson

Daily Kos Staff

Wednesday September 07, 2016 · 6:47 AM PDT

2016/09/07 · 06:47

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA - SEPTEMBER 06: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event September 6, 2016 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Trump participated in a discussion with retired Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Donald Trump has said he has a secret plan for defeating ISIS if elected president, and that “I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me.” But now suddenly his big plan to defeat ISIS is to … ask the generals for a plan. The generals who don’t know as much as he does.

“We are going to convey my top generals and give them a simple instruction," Trump told the crowd in Greenville, N.C., on Tuesday. "They will have 30 days to submit to the oval office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating ISIS. We have no choice."

Right. Because the generals already know what they could do to quickly defeat ISIS, and they’re just holding out on President Obama, waiting to tell President Trump. It’s not that this is a difficult issue or anything like that. “I’ll tell my generals to come up with a plan” is a far cry from Trump’s earlier claim that:

“I do know what to do and I would know how to bring ISIS to the table or beyond that, defeat ISIS very quickly and I’m not going to tell you what is… All I can tell you it is a foolproof way of winning.”

And what is going on with the guy who has said “my primary consultant is myself” deciding he needs to rely on a plan from a bunch of generals who don’t even know as much as he does? It’s almost like Trump isn’t as brilliant and all-knowing as he likes to claim.

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