You know how Donald Trump has been insinuating once again that President Obama is a secret Muslim who sympathizes with Islamic extremists like the Orlando nightclub shooter? Well, he’s pushing a story saying that the president has provided aid to the predecessors of ISIS.

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The presumptive nominee took to Twitter again this morning, where he shared this story from Breitbart’s Patrick Howley.

The story reads that the State Department under Hillary Clinton received a “secret memo” from a Defense Intelligence agent who said that Obama provided support to al-Qaeda’s Iraqi branch that eventually splintered off to become ISIS.

“The report identifies Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) as being one of the principal elements of the Syrian opposition, which the West was choosing to ‘support,'” the report reads. “The intelligence report contains an extensive backgrounder on AQI and its methods and capabilities, noting that AQI was speaking through the spokesman of the Islamic State of Iraq Muhammad Al Adnani.”

As The Hill noted, Obama’s administration set up programs in 2012

to train and equip Syrian rebels against Bashar al-Assad. The Pentagon found it difficult to determine which groups would make the most trustworthy allies, and though regional factions fought against the Syrian president, the government’s support has been the subject of both legitimate concerns and conspiracy theories that some support fell into the wrong hands.

Breitbart is well known for both publishing hard-right leaning stories and for being aligned with Trump. Both Obama and Clinton have been firing back on Trump this week, the latter going after the mogul for his penchant for pushing “conspiracy theories.”

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