A plan to defeat the Islamic State, or ISIS
May 2015: “All I can tell you it is a foolproof way of winning, and I’m not talking about what some people would say, but it is a foolproof way of winning the war with ISIS.”
June 2015: “The problem with politics is if I tell you right now, everyone else is going to say, 'Wow, what a great idea.' You're going to have 10 candidates go and use it, and they're going to forget where it came from, which is me. But no, I have an absolute way of defeating ISIS.”
By August, Trump delivered a speech on radical Islamist terrorism that his website bills as “Donald Trump’s Detailed Plan to Defeat ISIS.” But the speech didn't include all that much detail concerning the Islamic State, specifically. And a month later, Trump pulled a 180, saying he would go to the military generals and have them assemble a plan in his first 30 days in office.
By late September, Conway said there was still a plan: “He certainly has a plan. I've heard it.”
We still don't know what that plan is. Trump has said he doesn't want to telegraph too much. But it's not clear whether his “foolproof” plan is the operable one, or whether he'll defer to the generals.
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