{"id":119141,"date":"2017-04-06T14:52:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T19:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119141"},"modified":"2017-04-06T16:10:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:10:13","slug":"trump-suggests-bashar-assad-leave-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119141","title":{"rendered":"Trump suggests Bashar Assad leave power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-119142\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bashar-al-assad-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bashar-al-assad-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bashar-al-assad-263x175.jpg 263w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bashar-al-assad.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump is suggesting that Syrian President Bashar Assad may have to leave power after this week&#8217;s chemical weapons attack.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said Thursday that what happened in Syria is &#8220;a disgrace to humanity.&#8221; Asked if Assad should go, Trump said, &#8220;He&#8217;s there, and I guess he&#8217;s running things so something should happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president would not discuss what, if anything, the United States might do in response to the deadly chemical attack. He said the attack &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t have happened, and it shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he may talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the situation in Syria. Russia is a key supporter of the Assad government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump is suggesting that Syrian President Bashar Assad may have to leave power after this week&#8217;s chemical weapons attack. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said Thursday that what happened in Syria is &#8220;a disgrace to humanity.&#8221; Asked if Assad should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119154,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119141\/revisions\/119154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}