- Title: Trump statements on Syria have evolved from candidate to presidency
- Date: 7th April 2017
- Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (FILE - APRIL 27, 2016) (REUTERS) U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP WALKING ON STAGE (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP, SAYING: "We went from mistakes in Iraq, to Egypt, to Libya, to President Obama's 'line in the sand' in Syria. Each of these actions have helped to throw the region into chaos and gave ISIS the space it needs to grow and prosper. Very bad." U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP ON STAGE (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP SAYING: "We must as, a nation, be more unpredictable. We are totally predictable. We tell everything. We are sending troops. We tell them. We are sending something else, we have a news conference. We have to be unpredictable and we have to be unpredictable starting now. But they're going to be gone. ISIS (Islamic State) will be gone quickly if I'm elected president and they'll be gone quickly. They'll be gone very, very quickly.
- Embargoed: 21st April 2017 14:15
- Keywords: Trump Syria Twitter Assad ISIS
- Location: WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES / FORT DODGE, IOWA, UNITED STATES / ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, UNITED STATES / NAPLES, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES / INTERNET
- City: WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES / FORT DODGE, IOWA, UNITED STATES / ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, UNITED STATES / NAPLES, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES / INTERNET
- Country: USA
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0046BEI893
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: The United States fired cruise missiles on Friday (April 7) at a Syrian airbase from which President Donald Trump said a deadly chemical weapons attack had been launched, the first direct U.S. assault on the government of Bashar al-Assad in six years of civil war.
The strikes mark an evolution for President Trump who while campaigning for the seat he now holds said he would not attack Assad's forces because the Syrian leader was fighting ISIS. - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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