President Donald Trump has accused Barack Obama of “another terrible decision” to release prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, in a tweet in which he wrongly quoted official figures.

Mr Trump said on Tuesday morning that 122 “vicious” Guantanamo inmates had returned to the battlefield, “released by the Obama administration”.

The Guantanamo statistics Mr Trump cited come from a September report by the Director of National Intelligence.

The report did find that 122 of the 693 prisoners transferred out of the Cuban camp had returned to terrorist activities.