New York Times tries to deny Trump credit for getting al-Baghdadi

The NYT is saying that Trump almost kept us from getting the head of ISIS because he decided to withdraw troops from Northern Syria to avoid a war.

When Obama got Bin Laden the #FakeNews media praised him and ignored the fact that it was Bush's policies, policies that Obama condemned, that helped make that happen.

Now they're desperately trying to deny Trump credit for eliminating the head of ISIS.

As usual for the #FakeNews media it's all about protecting Democrats and vilifying Republicans.

Their "rationale" is that because Trump decided it was time for Americans to stop dying in Syria the military was forced to accelerate it's plan to take out the head of ISIS.

The problem is that the NYT article also says that the intel necessary for the raid appeared only days before the raid and that intel included the fact that al-Baghdadi was about to move.

That means that Trump's troop withdrawals had absolutely no impact on the actual mission.  In fact if the NYT is right and it was Trump's withdrawal plans that lit a fire under the military then Trump deserves credit because the mission was executed perfectly and al-Baghdadi was killed; something that wouldn't have happened if the military had passed up this opportunity.

Basically the NYT is lying in order to deny Trump the credit he deserves because they hate him.