On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” former FBI agent Ali Soufan stated President Trump “agreed with” ISIS that their brand still has potency “by dividing our country further today.”
Soufan said, “[O]ften terrorist organizations capitalize on the aftermath of the attack more than the attack itself, how are we gonna react to it, how the political leadership is gonna react to it. Is it gonna unite us as a country or divide us as a country? Well, they want to divide us. That’s why they are doing these kind of things. We have to be careful and our political leadership have to be extremely careful not to actually do something that the terrorists want us to do.”
Co-host Willie Geist then asked Soufan what a terrorist thinks “when he wakes up this morning and reads a tweet from the president of the United States who reacts to this by blaming a member, another United States politician of another party?”
“Well, we’re creating division inside that country. Terrorism is working. You know, and unfortunately, with the President’s tweet today, he kind of made it clear that territorial losses of ISIS in Mosul, in Raqqa, in Iraq and Syria, will definitely be overlasted with the inspirational message that ISIS is putting out. Their inspirational message, their brand is still very potent, and this is an example. And President Trump agreed with them in that by dividing our country further today.”
(h/t NewsBusters)
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