US starts withdrawing supplies, but not troops, from Syria

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military says it has started pulling equipment, but not troops, out of Syria as a first step in meeting President Donald Trump's demand for a complete military withdrawal.

The announcement is fueling concern about how quickly the U.S. will abandon its Kurdish allies, amid contradictory statements recently by Trump administration officials on an exit timetable.

The withdrawal began with shipments of military equipment, U.S. defense officials said. But in coming weeks, the contingent of about 2,000 troops is expected to depart even as the White House says it will keep pressure on the Islamic State group. Once the troops are gone, the U.S. will have ended three years of organizing, arming, advising and providing air cover for Syrian, Kurdish and Arab fighters in an open-ended campaign devised by the Obama administration to deal the IS group a lasting defeat.

https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/us-starts-withdrawing-supplies-but-not-troops-from-syria/1699050489

>>4724786

Good get that trash out of here!!!!

He raised $20 million with his viral border wall campaign. GoFundMe is sending it back

And just like that, the GoFundMe wall comes tumbling down.

Kind of.

The fund-raising website said Friday that it would refund the $20.3 million raised by nearly 339,000 people to partially fund President Donald Trump’s $5.6 billion border wall.

Brian Kolfage, 37, who lives with his family in the Miramar Beach resort community of Sandestin, in the Panhandle’s Walton County, created the We the People Will Build the Wall GoFundMe page with the aim to raise $1 billion in mid-December.

He also said on the page that “100 percent” of the monies raised would be refunded if the $1 billion goal hadn’t been met or if it hadn’t “come significantly close.”

That’s part of the reason donors are getting refunds.

The bigger issue is that Air Force veteran Kolfage, a triple amputee who writes on his website that he lost both his legs and one arm during a Sept. 11, 2004, rocket attack on Balad Air Base in Iraq, has created a nonprofit corporation in Florida — We Build the Wall, Inc.”

That nonprofit wasn’t part of the original description of his GoFundMe campaign. Now refunds will be given unless donors specifically take steps to reroute their monetary gift to the corporation.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article224342255.html#storylink=rss

>>4724867

Im so sorry my fren, prayers for your family.

Donald J. Trump

‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

I just watched a Fake reporter from the Amazon Washington Post say the White House is “chaotic, there does not seem to be a strategy for this Shutdown. There is no plan.” The Fakes always like talking Chaos, there is NONE. In fact, there’s almost nobody in the W.H. but me, and…

9:57 AM - 12 Jan 2019

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1084117143988461571

>>4725133

Donald J. Trump

‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

….I do have a plan on the Shutdown. But to understand that plan you would have to understand the fact that I won the election, and I promised safety and security for the American people. Part of that promise was a Wall at the Southern Border. Elections have consequences!

10:07 AM - 12 Jan 2019

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1084119654841364480