From 'Give Me a Break' to 'Get Ready'
Donald Trump's ever-changing stance on U.S. intervention in Syria
by Yasmeen Serhan
Apr 11, 2018
3 minutes
The progression of President Trump’s reaction to the on the Damascus suburb of Douma is less straight line than seesaw. On Sunday, the president warned Syrian Bashar al-Assad’s regime and its backers in Russia and Iran that there would be a “big price to pay” for the assault, in which dozens of people, including children, were killed. The next day, he hedged: Trump announced the U.S. would make “some major decisions” on how to respond within
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