Trump claims U.S. ‘has secured the oil’ in the Middle East, stoking confusion amid continued...

President Trump stoked confusion Friday by declaring the U.S. has “secured the Oil” in the Middle East amid continued fallout from the Turkish invasion of northern Syria that he enabled by pulling American troops out of the region.

It wasn’t immediately clear what the president was talking about, as there were no publicly known developments in Syria or elsewhere in the Middle East relating to oil. White House aides did not return requests for comment.