U.S. President Donald Trump receives a briefing from senior military leadership accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence and new National Security Adviser John Bolton at the Cabinet room of the White House in Washington, DC, U.S. April 9, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
CNBC: Trump cancels South America trip to 'oversee the American response to Syria'
* President Trump will not travel to South America this week, the White House says.
* Vice President Mike Pence will make the trip in Trump's stead.
* The White House says Trump will stay in the U.S. in order to "oversee the American response to Syria and to monitor developments around the world."
President Donald Trump has canceled his scheduled trip to multiple South American countries originally planned for this week, the White House said Tuesday.
In a statement, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president "will not attend the 8th Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru or travel to Bogota, Colombia as originally scheduled."
Vice President Mike Pence will make the trip in Trump's stead, Sanders said.
The White House said Trump will stay in the U.S. in order to "oversee the American response to Syria and to monitor developments around the world."
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Update #1: With Syria in focus, Trump cancels trip to Latin America (Reuters)
Update #2: Trump threatens Syria strike, cancels summit travel (AP)
WNU Editor: If there was any doubts that the U.S. was going to launch a military strike against targets in Syria .... this announcement kills it. It looks like there is going to be a massive US military strike against the Assad regime, and President Trump is expecting blow-back.
4 comments:
We rushed to judgment in the UK regarding those attacks as the editor has implied and others have so eloquently pointed out. Of course I knew this right away and pointed this out.
We are doing the same thing here. Unfortunately some just never learn. I suspect they are quite smart actually but ideology clouds their judgment. I suspect one of two possibilities in order of what I think is most likely.
1.)We are being manipulated by the Syrian "rebels." Those who base their decision making on ideology are vulnerable to such manipulation.
2.)The office, home, and hotel room of POTUS's personal attorney has been raided by the FBI. This looks to a bit close to home for POTUS. He needs a distraction. What better way to get this distraction than to take the country deeper into war!! I don't think he would be the first POTUS to do this. Will the powers that be criticize him over such a reckless response?
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Well it could be about his lawyers situation as well. Don't bust that Syrian bombing nut just yet.
This cruise missile strike will surely turn out different than the last dozen or so that 41/Clinton/43/Obama ever launched in MENA/South Asia during the last 30 years.
Meanwhile 100 people just died of cholera/starvation in the last hour during the ongoing Yemen war crime and nobody bats an eye.
I think I'll spend the next week in a bomb shelter.
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