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MSNBC was in full spin mode Thursday night following the U.S. airstrikes in Syria, denouncing President Trump for an “awkward” speech and strikes that may not have been legal, but also chiding him for doing something that might embolden Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to retaliate by inflicting more pain on his own people.
Breaking news co-host Rachel Maddow contended that Assad’s Tuesday Sarin gas attack against his own people was “designed for an audience of one...to test this new President to see how he will behave in that region, in which case this has to have been anticipated as a potential response to what they did on Tuesday.”