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Undated: Brett H. McGurk (born April 20, 1973) is an American diplomat who was Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. He was appointed by President Barack Obama on October 23, 2015,[1] and was retained in that role by the Trump administration. McGurk replaced General John R. Allen to whom he had been a deputy since September 16, 2014.

McGurk also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran, at the U.S. Department of State, and from October 2014 through January 2016 led 14 months of secret negotiations with Iran that led to a prisoner swap and release of four Americans from Evin Prison in Tehran, including Washington Post journalist, Jason Rezaian.[2] This assignment, among others, reinforced McGurk's "reputation as a doer", according to the New York Times.[3] He earlier served under President George W. Bush as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Iraq and Afghanistan, and under President Obama as Special Advisor to the U.S. National Security Council and Senior Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. McGurk served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on the U.S. Supreme Court during the Court's 2001 October Term.

McGurk had been slated to leave the post of Special Presidential Envoy in mid-February 2019,[4] but on December 22, 2018, in the wake of President Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria, McGurk announced his resignation from his post effective December 31, 2018.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_McGurk

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December 22: U.S. Envoy To The Coalition Against ISIS Resigns Over Trump's Syria Policy

Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State, has announced his resignation, reportedly in protest of President Trump's decision this week to withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria.

McGurk, a veteran diplomat with more than a decade of experience in Iraq, had worked with the 79-member global coalition led by the U.S. to reclaim territory seized by the Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq.

His resignation is effective December 31st. McGurk was originally planning to leave his job in mid-February.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/22/679535003/u-s-envoy-to-the-coalition-against-isis-resigns-over-trumps-syria-policy

December 23: Brett McGurk Was ‘Shocked’ by Trump’s ‘Complete Reversal’ of Syria Policy

Trying to downplay the news, the president tweeted on Saturday that he doesn’t know the envoy to counter ISIS
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mcgurk-resignation-reactions-772290/

December 23: Days before he resigned, US envoy Brett McGurk warned that ISIS will take years to defeat

"We're on track now over the coming months to defeat what used to be the physical space that ISIS controlled," McGurk told CNBC's Hadley Gamble. "That will not be the end of ISIS."

The conversation with McGurk took place on Dec. 15 at a security forum in Doha, Qatar. Just four days later, President Donald Trump would declare the Islamic State defeated and announce the withdrawal of all U.S. forces fighting ISIS from Syria.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/23/before-resigning-us-envoy-mcgurk-warned-isis-will-take-years-to-defeat.html

December 24: Former Secretary of State John Kerry hit back Monday at President Donald Trump’s recent criticism of Brett McGurk, the former U.S. special envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State group (ISIS), and accused the president of being, “not a fraction of the person or patriot that [Brett McGurk] is.”

Kerry, in a tweet, also said it was "pathetic" and "demoralizing to public servants everywhere," that Trump would, "defame a public servant who joined the Bush Administration and stayed on the last two years to help Iraq & defeat ISIL."
https://www.newsweek.com/john-kerry-trump-patriot-mcgurk-isis-1270968

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December 25: AP fact check: Trump revisits old fictions about Iran money

President Donald Trump is recycling familiar fictions concerning the Iran nuclear deal as he lashes out at a Republican senator who criticized him and a U.S. official who resigned in protest against Trump’s plan to pull troops from Syria.

Trump slapped both critics in one tweet on Monday:

“For all of the sympathizers out there of Brett McGurk remember, he was the Obama appointee who was responsible for loading up airplanes with 1.8 Billion Dollars in CASH & sending it to Iran as part of the horrific Iran Nuclear Deal (now terminated) approved by Little Bob Corker.”

THE FACTS:
Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee actually was a leading opponent of the deal. Brent McGurk, who is resigning as Trump’s envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria, was indeed a chief negotiator of the Iran nuclear deal. But Trump, for years, has told a dodgy story about payments made to Iran as part of the agreement.

Here’s what the president doesn’t tell you in his tweet:

The $1.8 (actually $1.7 billion) was a debt owed to Iran, which bought military equipment from the U.S. that it never received because relations ruptured when the shah was overthrown in 1979.

The debt was in international arbitration for years. As part of that, Iran paid settlements of more than $2.5 billion to U.S. citizens and businesses.

$400 million, representing the principal and held in a U.S. government trust fund, was paid in cash and flown to Tehran on a cargo plane, which gave rise to Trump’s dramatic accounts of money stuffed in barrels or boxes and delivered in the dead of night.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-fact-check-trump-revisits-old-fictions-about-iran-money

December 31: Brett McGurk Says State Department Facing ‘Extremely Difficult Circumstances’ In Farewell Tweet

A top State Department official who resigned in protest of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops in Syria wished his colleagues well in a tweet Monday as they face what he called “extremely difficult circumstances.”

Brett McGurk, the outgoing U.S. envoy to the global coalition fighting the self-described Islamic State, submitted his letter of resignation to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Dec. 21. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis submitted a searing letter of resignation to the president a day earlier.

“Today was my last day at the State Department,” McGurk tweeted Monday. “I wish my former civilian and military colleagues well as they work under extremely difficult circumstances to protect the interests of our great country.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-mcgurk-farewell-tweet_us_5c2a7099e4b0407e9085167d

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