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A top story Monday evening was the anticipation President Trump would announce a plan to strike back at Syria in retaliation for apparently using chemical weapons on civilian populations. While the President himself came out strong against the Assad regime by condemning them and their Russian and Iranian backers, both ABC and NBC pushed a smear by Senator John McCain (R-Ari.) blaming Trump for the attack. And CBS failed to report the President’s condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
During his report of President Trump’s promised action against Syria on World News Tonight, ABC White House correspondent Jon Karl used Trump’s desire to pull troop out of the war-torn country against him:
Just last week, the President said he wanted to pull American troops out of Syria soon. (…) But Senator John McCain said the President had, quote, “signaled to the world that the United States would prematurely withdraw from Syria,’ saying Assad was ‘emboldened by American inaction.”
Karl even threw in a clip of himself asking White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders a ridiculous question about it. “Sarah, didn't the President, by saying that he wants to get out of Syria, essentially give a green light to Assad to do this,” he wondered during the press briefing.
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