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DonViejo

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Thu May 25, 2017, 10:24 AM May 2017

The alt-right is furious at Trump for his foreign trip

THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2017 12:59 AM EDT

Bannon's waning influence on President Trump's foreign policy has not gone unnoticed

ALEXANDRA ROSENMANN, ALTERNET

Trump’s Syria strike, while widely praised in the mainstream media, drew significant backlash from the president’s populist base. Now, five weeks later, Trump’s first foreign trip has ushered in a new wave of criticism from his core group of supporters.

One week after the military action, British Infowars vlogger Paul Joseph Watson was joined on his Infowars show by Jack Posobiec, director at Citizens for Trump, where he explained why he’d jumped “Off the Trump train” the week prior.

“400,000 Syrians had died in this civil war over the past six years before the chemical weapons attack,” he &t=6m25s" target="_blank">told Posobiec. “Assad had been killing his own people for six years . . . it’s a civil war; that’s what happens.”

Watson also noted that at a news conference in the Turkish capital, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asserted on March 30 that the Syrian people would determine Assad’s fate. “What changed one week later?” Watson asked. “The only thing I can see is Bannon being demoted.”

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The alt-right is furious at Trump for his foreign trip (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
A pox on both their houses. Coventina May 2017 #1
They knew what they were voting for but didn't care BumRushDaShow May 2017 #2
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