April 11, 2017 | 7:11pm
Amid complaints that his aides are saying different things about Syria and his policy is confusing, President Trump emphatically cleared the air.
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We’re not going into Syria,” he told me yesterday in an exclusive interview. “
Our policy is the same — it hasn’t changed. We’re not going into Syria.”
The president, speaking by phone Tuesday, called Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a “butcher” and a “barbarian” for using sarin gas on his own people, but said last week’s successful missile strike was not the start of a campaign to oust the dictator.
http://nypost.com/2017/04/11/trump-were-not-going-into-syria/
