Donald Trump’s plan to defeat the Islamic State involves destroying them — and their families. 
 
 “I would knock the hell out of ISIS, I would hit them so hard,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday. “When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don’t kid yourself. When they say they don’t care about their lives, you have to take out their families.” 
 
 Trump’s comments came a day after the Lebanese government released Saja al-Dulaimi, the former wife of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as part of a prisoner swap with an al-Qaida affiliate. But there was “no immediate indication that Dulaimi’s release was for the benefit of ISIS,” CNN reported. (She has been divorced from Baghdadi for more than six years and told Al Jazeera she hopes to resettle in Turkey.) 
 
 Meanwhile, the Republican frontrunner is attacking President Obama on ISIS, releasing a new campaign video critical of the administration’s response to the ongoing terror threat. 
 
 The video, released via Trump’s Instagram account on Tuesday, uses footage of a smiling Obama posing for selfies during a BuzzFeed photo shoot in February juxtaposed with images of ISIS training camps, the recent terror attacks in Paris and the downing of a Russian airliner. 
 
 “It is time for serious leadership,” reads an overlay before Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” appears. 
 
 According to a new Quinnipiac national poll released Wednesday, Trump is seen as best equipped among GOP candidates to handle terrorism, with 29 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters holding that view. Ben Carson, at 19 percent, is viewed as the second-best candidate when it comes to dealing with global terror, the poll found. 
 
 “I say ISIS is our No. 1 threat,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday. “And we have a president that doesn’t know what he is doing. And all he’s worried about is climate change.” ||||| Cain: Trump Is GOP Front-Runner Because He's a Leader and a Fighter 
 
 Cruz: Obama, Hillary Won't Even Try to Defeat ISIS 
 
 Donald Trump joined “Fox and Friends” this morning to explain how he would stand up to ISIS as president. 
 
 One of the biggest problems right now? “We’re fighting a very politically correct war,” said the GOP presidential frontrunner. 
 
 “When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,” he continued. “They care about their lives, don’t kid yourself.” 
 
 Trump joined the growing criticisms of President Obama for appearing to send the wrong message to Americans on ISIS, which he called “our number one threat.” 
 
 “All he’s worried about is climate change. He thinks climate change is something that’s going to go kill us,” said the real estate mogul. “And it’s not going to kill us at all.” 
 
 Had Trump been president, he wouldn’t have gone to this week’s Paris climate change conference at all, he told Brian Kilmeade. 
 
 “I would have maybe sent a vice president,” he said. “But that might be too high a position.” 
 
 Watch the interview above. 
 
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 Sen. Coats: Obama Admin Now Acknowledging ISIS Strategy Has Failed ||||| Donald Trump totally knows how to defeat ISIS, but there’s no way he’s telling any of us what his plan is yet. Trump spoke with Fox’s Greta Van Susteren tonight and bemoaned how the U.S. has “totally messed up the balance in the Middle East.” He believes the U.S. has to do something to combat ISIS. 
 
 Van Susteren asked him exactly what that would be. Trump said, “I do know what to do and I would know how to bring ISIS to the table or, beyond that, defeat ISIS very quickly.” 
 
 He then added, “And I’m not gonna tell you what it is tonight.” 
 
 Van Susteren stopped him and asked, “Why won’t you tell? We need all the help we can get!” 
 
 Trump explained: 
 
 “I don’t want the enemy to know what I’m doing. Unfortunately, I’ll probably have to tell at some point, but there is a method of defeating them quickly and effectively and having total victory.” 
 
 Watch the video below, via Fox News: 
 
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 Donald Trump joined “Fox and Friends” this morning to explain how he would stand up to ISIS as president. 
 
 
 
 One of the biggest problems right now? “We’re fighting a very politically correct war,” said the GOP presidential frontrunner. 
 
 
 
 “When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,” he continued. “They care about their lives, don’t kid yourself.” 
 
 
 
 Trump joined the growing criticisms of President Obama for appearing to send the wrong message to Americans on ISIS, which he called “our number one threat.” 
 
 
 
 “All he’s worried about is climate change. He thinks climate change is something that’s going to go kill us,” said the real estate mogul. “And it’s not going to kill us at all.” 
 
 
 
 Had Trump been president, he wouldn’t have gone to this week’s Paris climate change conference at all, he told Brian Kilmeade. 
 
 
 
 “I would have maybe sent a vice president,” he said. “But that might be too high a position.”
– Donald Trump said earlier this year that he doesn't want to tip his hand on how he would defeat ISIS, but he offered a bit of a glimpse into his anti-terrorism strategy on Wednesday. "I would knock the hell out of ISIS, I would hit them … so hard," the GOP front-runner declared on Fox & Friends, per Yahoo Politics. "When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families." He also took aim at what he calls a "very politically correct war" we're fighting, per NBC News. And when asked about civilian casualties, Trump added "one of the reasons we're so ineffective [is the terrorists are] … using [civilians] as shields. It's a horrible thing," the Hill notes. Trump, who just jumped even more to the front of the GOP pack, next laid into President Obama for what Trump believes are misplaced priorities in fighting the militant group, per Fox News Insider. "All he’s worried about is climate change," Trump continued, referring to the Paris environmental summit Obama is attending. "He thinks climate change is something that's going to go kill us. And it's not going to kill us at all." In fact, Trump added, he wouldn't have even gone to the conference if he were president. "I would have maybe sent a vice president," he noted. "But that might be too high a position." (He didn't charge Fox millions for these insights, did he?)