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Trump Denies Report He Wanted to Assassinate Syria’s Bashar al-Assad

HeadlineSep 06, 2018

The warning came as President Trump on Wednesday denied a report—made by veteran journalist Bob Woodward in his forthcoming book “Fear: Trump in the White House”—that Trump ordered Pentagon chief James Mattis to assassinate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in April of 2017.  

President Donald Trump: “No, the book is fiction. I heard somewhere where they said the assassination of President Assad by the United States. Never even discussed. The book is total fiction.”

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