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On the recordApril 11, 2017
He's been going off on Bashar al Assad for a while now, but today, he called him a butcher.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

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Donald Trump labels Bashar al-Assad as a butcher, indicating a shift in his stance towards military intervention in Syria.

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