{"id":318865,"date":"2017-07-25T17:09:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T16:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-appears-to-back-ending-covert-cia-program-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T17:09:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T16:09:50","slug":"trump-appears-to-back-ending-covert-cia-program-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-appears-to-back-ending-covert-cia-program-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump appears to back ending covert CIA program in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has seemingly backed a decision to halt support for foreign-backed militants in Syria, inadvertently confirming the existence of a covert CIA program to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Trump attacked <em>The Washington Post <\/em>in connection with a story about the termination of US efforts to aid so-called moderate rebels fighting Assad.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said the newspaper had \u201cfabricated the facts\u201d about his decision to end the \u201cmassive, dangerous, and wasteful\u201d CIA program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad,\u201d Trump wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Trump accused <em>The Post<\/em> of reporting \u201cfake news\u201d and suggested that the newspaper was being used as a \u201clobbyist weapon\u201d to help Amazon avoid taxes. Amazon founder Jeffrey Bezos purchased <em>The Post<\/em> in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper reported last week that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/07\/25\/529656\/Trump-Syria-CIA\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has seemingly backed a decision to halt support for foreign-backed militants in Syria, inadvertently confirming the existence of a covert CIA program to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Trump attacked The Washington Post in connection with a story about the termination of US efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-318865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}