During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump made defeating ISIS a centerpiece of his foreign policy. Trump has long assured us that he has a very real — and very good — plan to defeat the Islamic State, but always said he couldn’t share the details of it.
Trump originally claimed this was a plan of own. In fact, he has been talking about this secret plan for more than a year. He has said it was “foolproof” and “absolute” in its effectiveness. “When I do come up with a plan that I like and that perhaps agrees with mine, or maybe doesn’t, I may love what the generals come back with. I have a plan, but I don’t want to ― look, I have a very substantial chance of winning, make America great again. We’re going to make America great again. I have a substantial chance of winning. If I win, I don’t want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is. Let me tell you, if I like maybe a combination of my plan or the generals’ plan, if I like their plan, I’m not going to call you up and say, we have a great plan."
In a CNN interview which aired on Sept. 7th 2016, Trump told CNN reporter Sara Murray quote “I’m going to convene my top generals and give them a simple instruction. They will have 30 days to submit to the Oval Office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating ISIS.” He later told supporters in Greenville, N.C. “They’ll have 30 days to submit to the Oval Office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating ISIS,”
Since Trump indeed won and was inaugurated on the 20th of Jan. then we could have reasonably assumed that we would have gotten word of the details of the promised document sometime around the 20th of February, however, this was not the case.
