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Donald Trump: “Look, what I did should have been done by the Obama administration a long time before I did it.”

On the recordApril 10, 2017
Look, what I did should have been done by the Obama administration a long time before I did it.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Donald Trump criticizes the previous administration for not taking action in Syria regarding chemical weapons.

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