Just a few weeks after sending 500 troops into Syria Trump claimed in his latest interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo that he would not send ground troops into Syria.
“We’re not going into Syria, but when I see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons which they agreed not to use under the Obama administration but they violated it,” Mr. Trump said.
“When you drop gas or bombs or barrel bombs — they have these massive barrels with dynamite and they drop them right in the middle of a group of people,” the president said. “And in all fairness, you see the same kids, no arms, no leg, no face. This is an animal.”
“Putin is backing a person that’s truly an evil person. And I think that’s very bad for Russia,” he said. “I think that’s very bad for mankind. It’s very bad for this word. “