President Trump tweets inaccurately that Barack Obama released 122 Guantanamo Bay re-engagers

President Trump on Tuesday morning claimed former president Barack Obama released 122 prisoners who have since re-engaged in terrorism -- a statement pointed out to be inaccurate by one reporter.

"122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield," Trump wrote in his morning tweet. "Just another terrible decision!"

Reporter Carol Rosenberg -- who covers Guantanamo Bay for the Miami Herald, was quick to point out the inaccurate nature of the president's statement, though, when she tweeted a file from the Department of National Intelligence.

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"Wrong POTUS, @realDonaldTrump," Rosenberg wrote. "Your intel agencies report shows Bush released 113 of the 122 re-engagers from Gitmo."

The public document Rosenberg links out to has an upload date of September, 2016. It is possible President Trump looked at the total number of re-engagers (122), but failed to see the time breakdown of when they were released. Of the 122 confirmed re-engagers, former president George W. Bush released 113 of them, while Barack Obama released 9.

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Trump's Gitmo tweet came just over a half hour after FOX News' account tweeted that a former Guantanamo detainee was among those killed in recent U.S. airstrikes on terror targets in Yemen.

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