The excessive amount of time that is being spent on exposing US President Donald Trump’s personal issues is allowing Washington to dodge questions about more fundamental issues such as its role in the ongoing conflict in Syria, says an American academic.
Dr. James Petras, a Bartle professor emeritus of sociology based in New York, made the reamrks while discussing Fear, a controversial new book on Trump by Bob Woodward.
The book alleges that Trump allegedly demanded the assassination of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after a 2017 chemical attack that Washington blamed on Damascus.
According to an excerpt from the book by Washington Post journalist, the US president told Defense Secretary James Mattis that he intended to assassinate the Syrian leader after the attack against the militant-held village of Khan Shaykhun in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib last year.
Mattis reportedly told Trump he would get “right on it” in an apparent…