Trump Blames Obama for Syria Gas Attack on Its Own People

‘The Past Administration’s Weakness’

President Donald Trump is blaming his predecessor for Monday night’s chemical attack by the Syrian government on its own people that left at least 100 people, including women and children, dead, with many others wounded. Trump says the attack is “a consequence of the past administration’s weakness and irresolution.”

While denouncing the “actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime,” Syria’s president, as “reprehensible” and “heinous,” Trump goes on to further attack President Barack Obama.

“President Obama said in 2012 that he would establish a ‘red line’ against the use of chemical weapons and then did nothing. The United States stands with our allies across the globe to condemn this intolerable attack,” Trump’s statement concludes.

But at least four times after Obama’s red line statement Trump urged Obama to not take any action in Syria.

Some believe sarin gas, a chemical nerve agent, was used by Assad on his own people. If true, that would make the attack a war crime. Dozens, possibly 100 are dead, including children and babies in diapers, according to reports. 

Asked to comment earlier Tuesday afternoon, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ignored reporters and walked away. He later issued a written statement.

Earlier Tuesday White House Press Secretary also blamed President Obama, using the same language as Trump’s official statement.

MSNBC, pointing to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, and Secretary of State Tillerson, notes, “less than a week after top Trump administration officials publicly said they no longer wish to remove Assad from power, the Assad government appears to have gassed many of his own people.”

Never before in American history has any president attacked his predecessor in such fashion. This is literally unprecedented.

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