Trump blames Putin, Assad, Iran, and Obama in tweets on Syrian chemical attack

President Trump and former President Obama

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published 8 April 2018

President Trump responded on Twitter Sunday to news of a deadly chemical attack in Syria. He began with a message similar to the State Department's condemnation of Moscow's support for Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime:

In 2013, Trump urged Obama not to attack Syria. As president-elect, he promised to oppose regime change: "We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn't be involved with." And just over a week ago, he sought to end U.S. military intervention in Syria, arguing that the American mission in Syria is nearly complete thanks to the falling fortunes of the Islamic State.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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