Trump made vulgar remarks about Syrian Kurds – US official says in book
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Former American politician said in his book that former US President, Donald Trump, interrupted Oval Office briefing to ask why he should ‘give a fuck’ about Kurds amid US troops withdrawal from Syria back in 2019.
The Guardian obtained a copy of the book to be published next week and reported that Adam Kinzinger, who served as a Republican representative from Illinois up until this year, wrote in his book, Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country, about Donald Trump’s vulgar remarks about the Kurds.
He shortly described Trump’s resistance during the briefing on the Kurds in Syria. “I left with two lasting impressions. One was the despairing look on [adviser John] Bolton’s face as Trump kept struggling to focus. The other was when Trump said of the Kurds in Syria, ‘Why would I give a fuck?’” Kinzinger wrote.
He wrote, Bolton later attempted through a small group of officials invited to the White House to have Trump focus on the Kurds in Syria and not to abandon them.
“Once we got to the Oval Office, I could see that Trump was impatient, and Bolton was desperate for someone to get through to him,” Kinzinger wrote.
“A plain-spoken intellectual, Bolton strained to remain polite even as Trump seemed uninterested. The Kurds had fought and died for us in Iraq, said Bolton. They were continuing to provide great insight into politics in the region. Nothing we said worked,” he added.
Their attempt did not succeed and Trump ordered to withdraw US forces from Syria. He justified that Kurds “didn’t help us in the second world war, they didn’t help us with Normandy,” hence, giving way for Turkey and its affiliated armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian National Army, to occupy the cities of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) in northern Hasakah, and Tel Abyad in northern Raqqa on Oct. 9, 2019 in a military operation dubbed “Peace Spring.”
The operation led to the displacement of over 300,000 people, the killing and injuring of dozens of civilians. They are now scattered in camps, schools, villages, and cities in northeastern Syria, in areas held by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).