Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Mike Murphy — Trump declines to endorse Bannon, says U.S. ‘not going into Syria’

President Donald Trump declined to give top adviser Steve Bannon a vote of confidence during a New York Post interview published Tuesday, in which he also said the U.S. was not headed toward a ground war in Syria.…
When asked Monday by Post columnist Michael Goodwin if he still had confidence in Bannon, Trump didn’t exactly give a ringing endorsement: “I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late. I had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn’t know Steve. I’m my own strategist and it wasn’t like I was going to change strategies because I was facing crooked Hillary.”...
In the same interview, Trump told Goodwin that, despite last week’s airstrike, U.S. policy toward Syria has not changed. “We’re not going into Syria,” Trump said. “Our policy is the same — it hasn’t changed. We’re not going into Syria.”...
MarketWatch
Trump declines to endorse Bannon, says U.S. ‘not going into Syria’
Mike Murphy

2 comments:

Noah Way said...

The US is already in Syria.

Peter Pan said...

US bombs have been falling in Syria for years...