Trump on Turkey going into Syria: 'It's not our problem' originally appeared on abcnews.go.comPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday again tried to distance himself and the U.S. from the Syria crisis, telling reporters asking about Turkey attacking into Syria, 'It's not our problem.&
President Donald Trump on Wednesday again tried to distance himself and the U.S. from the Syria crisis, telling reporters asking about Turkey attacking into Syria, 'It's not our problem."
Elaborating on the continued fighting between Turkish forces and the U.S.-allied Syrian Kurds, Trump said of the Kurds,"They're not angels." "I view the situation on the Turkish border with Syria to be, for the United States, strategically brilliant," President Trump says amid bipartisan criticism of his administration's decision to withdraw U.S. troops https://t.co/G5REIbltay pic.twitter.com/G12ktXO4SX
The president was to meet with congressional leaders later Wednesday on the Syria situation -- many of them angry about his handling of the situation.
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