Trump meets with former ISIS leader now identifies as Syrian president after getting rid of Assad

President Trump and Syrian Islamist President cum ISIS terrorist Ahmed al-Sharaa

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, a major U.S. policy shift ahead of an expected meeting with Syria’s Islamist President Ahmed al-Sharaa. He met with the terrorist on Wednesday.

Can I get an 'allahu akbar.'

The U.S. is exploring the possibility of normalizing relations with Syria, Trump said. Hopefully, if this happens, Trump will make it conditional, specifically, recognizing Israel's statehood.

“We are currently exploring normalizing relations with Syria’s new government, as you know, beginning with my meeting with President Ahmed al-Sharaa,” he said at a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council. 

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was also present and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, joined by phone. The readout said both leaders schmoozed Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Syria, where Sharaa became president/dictator in January after the fall of the longtime chinless dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Trump told the former terrorist leader that he had “a tremendous opportunity to do something historic in his country,” the readout said. He urged Sharaa to sign on to the Abraham Accords, a framework for Arab states to recognize Israeli sovereignty that the U.S. mediated during Trump’s first term.

He also advised Sharaa to tell foreign terrorists to leave Syria, deport Palestinian terrorists, help the U.S. prevent the resurgence of the Islamic State and assume responsibility for Islamic State detention centers in Syria’s northeast.

Sharaa, not to be trusted, affirmed his commitment to Syria’s 1974 disengagement with Israel and invited American companies to invest in Syrian oil and gas, the readout said.

We need to semi-trust Middle East leaders and verify the crap out of them.

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