Trump’s evolution on Syria didn’t happen overnight
Jeremy Diamond
But even as he spoke broadly during the December cocktail gathering about a US responsibility over the horrors taking place in Syria, he was clearly undergoing a shift in his approach to the conflict there as his moral responsibility as the US President and ”leader of the free world” began to sink in.
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