Trump Assaults Putin for Backing ‘Animal Assad’ After Syria Chemical Weapons Reports

President Donald Trump blamed Russia and Iran for backing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad after reviews emerged Sunday of a chemical weapons assault by the regime in opposition to the rebel-held metropolis of Douma on Sunday.

Dozens were reportedly killed within the Saturday assault, even supposing the claims couldn’t but be independently verified.

Trump named President Vladimir Putin staunch now — a mighty gesture, given his contemporary insistence on the agree with to cooperate with Russia, if that you simply would also factor in, and the constant complaints of critics unruffled alleging collusion all by procedure of the election.

Trump tweeted:

Many useless, including ladies and youngsters, in mindless CHEMICAL assault in Syria. Space of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it fully inaccessible to out of doorways world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are guilty for backing Animal Assad. Wide label…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April eight, 2018

….to pay. Birth draw without prolong for medical support and verification. One other humanitarian catastrophe for no reason in anyway. SICK!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April eight, 2018

Trump also blamed his predecessor, Barack Obama, for failing to enforce the “red line” on Syria’s chemical weapons that he announced in 2012.

If President Obama had crossed his said Red Line In The Sand, the Syrian catastrophe would agree with ended formula support! Animal Assad would had been historic past!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April eight, 2018

The Obama administration took pride in an agreement brokered with Russia, under which all of Assad’s chemical weapons were speculated to had been eliminated.

Last spring, President Trump replied to a chemical weapons assault on civilians by Syria by attacking a Syrian air force deplorable with close to 60 Tomahawk missiles. He urged that a identical response would be an fundamental if the regime persisted in its use of chemical weapons.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Wide at Breitbart News. He used to be named to Forward’s 50 “most influential” Jews in 2017. He is the co-author of How Trump Received: The Inner Memoir of a Revolution, which is obtainable from Regnery. Put together him on Twitter at @joelpollak.