List: POTUS Trump's Recent Accomplishments Including a First Win from Russian Summit

President Donald J. Trump Has Restored American Leadership 

On The World Stage

MOMENTUM FOR POSITIVE CHANGE WITH NORTH KOREA: President Donald J. Trump has taken a bold first step to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

-President Trump held a historic summit with Chairman Kim Jong Un.
-The summit marked a bold first step to achieving the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
-During the summit, North Korea reaffirmed its commitment to complete denuclearization, agreed to help the United States recover POW/MIA remains, and committed to destroying a missile engine testing site.

1. -The summit built on the progress President Trump had already achieved, including: The return of three Americans detained in North Korea;
2. The March pledge by North Korea to refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests; and
3. The apparent closure of North Korea’s nuclear test site.

WITHDRAWING FROM THE UNACCEPTABLE IRAN DEAL: President Trump has ended United States participation in the disastrous Iran deal.

-President Trump terminated United States participation in the Iran deal, as it failed to protect America’s national security interests.

1. The one-sided “deal” gave Iran a windfall of cash, enabling its malign behavior.
2. The President directed his Administration to immediately begin the process of re-imposing sanctions on Iran.

-The Trump Administration has issued serious sanctions targeting Iranian entities and activities, including:

1. Financial and procurement networks supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force.
2. Iranian entities engaging in human rights abuses and censorship on behalf of the Iranian regime.
3. Iranian individuals providing ballistic missiles and technical expertise to Yemen’s Houthis.

DESTROYING ISIS: The Trump Administration has worked with allies to destroy ISIS and liberate territory previously occupied by the self-declared caliphate. 

-President Trump has empowered United States commanders with broad authority to defeat ISIS.
-ISIS has lost nearly all of its territory, more than half of which has been liberated under the Trump Administration.
-In December 2017, the Iraqi government announced all Iraqi territory had been liberated from ISIS control.
-ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital city Raqqah was recaptured in October 2017.

RESPONDING TO SYRIA’S USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS: President Trump has forcefully responded to the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons.

-The President authorized military strikes, responding to the Syrian regime’s savage chemical weapons attacks.

1. In April 2018, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France launched strikes against targets associated with the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons capabilities.
2. In April 2017, President Trump directed United States military forces to strike a Syrian airfield used in the regime’s chemical weapons attack earlier that month.

-President Trump has joined with allies to call on Syria to fully declare and dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal and to deter chemical weapons use worldwide.

-Since February 2017, the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has rolled out sanctions targeting 284 individuals and entities responsible for supporting the Syrian regime’s use of military force and chemical weapons against civilians.

pc: rush limbaugh

RECOGNIZING JERUSALEM AS ISRAEL’S CAPITAL: President Trump followed through on his promise to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and open the United States Embassy there.

-President Trump acted on his pledge to recognize the reality that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and open the United States Embassy there.

1. In December 2017, President Trump announced the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
2. In May 2018, the United States officially opened its Embassy in Jerusalem.

ETA:

Important --->  @ Helsinki: Putin Granted Israel's Request 

President Trump: The Big Picture

A First Win at Helsinki Summit

In Case You Haven't Figured Out What Dems Have Chosen

POTUS Accomplishments Up to Year 2017

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Dismantling the Obama Legacy: Defeat of ISIS in Raqqa

Trump Defeats ISIS In Months — After Years Of Excuses From Obama

pc: CBS News

Terrorism: Nine months after President Trump promised to defeat ISIS "quickly and effectively," U.S.-backed forces captured Raqqa, which until Tuesday had served as the ISIS capital. The battle now is over who deserves credit: Trump or President Obama.

Trump, not surprisingly, claims it for himself: "It had to do with the people I put in and it had to do with rules of engagement," Trump said in a radio interview

Before dismissing this as typical Trump self-aggrandizement, consider that for several years Obama insisted that a quick and decisive victory against ISIS was all but impossible.

After belittling ISIS as a "JV" team and then being surprised by its advances, Obama finally got around to announcing a strategy to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the militant Islamic group.

As his strategy dragged on and seemed to go nowhere, Obama kept telling the country that this was just the nature of the beast.

"It will take time to eradicate a cancer like (ISIS). It will take time to root them out."

"This is a long-term and extremely complex challenge."

"This will not be quick."

"There will be setbacks and there will be successes."

"We must be patient and flexible in our efforts; this is a multiyear fight and there will be challenges along the way."

And he kept insisting that winning the war against ISIS has as much to do with public relations as it did weapons. "This broader challenge of countering extremism is not simply a military effort. Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they are defeated by better ideas."

What Obama didn't say is that reason defeating ISIS was taking so long was of how he was fighting it.

A former senior military commander in the region told the Washington Examiner that the Obama White House was micromanaging the war "to the degree that it was just as bad, if not worse, than during the Johnson administration." Johnson, you will recall, once bragged that "they can't bomb an outhouse in Vietnam without my permission."

Contrast this with Trump. Rather than talk endlessly about how long and hard the fight would be, Trump said during his campaign that, if elected, he would convene his "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."

Once in office, Trump made several changes in the way the war was fought, the most important of which were to loosen the rules of engagement and give more decision-making authority to battlefield commanders.

Joshua Keating, writing in the liberal commentary site Slate, noted that Trump had "instructed the Pentagon to loosen the rules of engagement for airstrikes to the minimum required by international law, eliminated White House oversight procedures meant to protect civilians, and ordered the CIA to resume covert targeted killing missions." (He meant it as a criticism).

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who can hardly be called a Trump lap dog, praised what he said was "a dramatic shift in a very positive way — away from the political micromanaging of the Obama years to freeing up generals and troops to destroy ISIS."

The result of this shift seems pretty obvious. In July, ISIS was booted from Mosul, and this week Raqqa was liberated. For all intents and purposes, ISIS has been defeated. Trump did in nine months what Obama couldn't in the previous three years.

pc: zerohedge.com

Trump's critics will insist that victory was inevitable, given that Obama had severely degraded ISIS over the previous years, and that all Trump did was continue Obama's strategy.

But the bottom line is that while Obama preached patience, Trump promised a swift end to ISIS, and then delivered on it.

-- Investor Business Daily, Editorials
After Years of Excuses from Obama

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Raqqa Victory

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/raqqa-victory-means-trump-defeated-isis-in-months-after-years-of-excuses-from-obama/