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Appearing on MSNBC in the 10 a.m. ET hour on Tuesday to perform a supposed “fact check” of Donald Trump’s Monday foreign policy speech, Politifact editor Angie Holan denounced the Republican nominee’s statement that “The rise of ISIS is the direct result of policy decisions made by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton.”
Holan proclaimed: “This is distorted. Our research shows that the terrorist group that we now call ISIS was forming right after the Iraq war, during the Bush administration. In 2004, the group was coming together. In 2006, it was quite active. It's had a number of name changes over the years.”