EXCERPT:
TOOBIN: “Well, you know, I think that that campaign talk was just campaign libel and absurd. I think what you actually have to look at is what the President has been saying for a long time about troops in the Middle East. This is a very interesting part of Bob Woodward’s book, where he keeps saying to his generals, why are we in Afghanistan 17 years later? Why do we have all these troops over there? I think a lot of Americans are pretty sympathetic to that view. That we send troops in the Middle East, and we rarely make things better. I think the aberration was the talk during the campaign was simply — an idiotic way of attacking Barack Obama. But the core idea of wanting troops out of the Middle East is something I think Trump believes, and is something that I think a lot of Americans have sympathy for.”