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Obama’s response to a 2013 chemical attack in Syria

President Trump blamed his predecessor for Syria’s ongoing violence and casualties on Wednesday. He claimed that President Obama’s failure to act in 2013, after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad crossed the “red line” of deploying chemical weapons, has allowed the bloody conflict to continue.

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