"politifact" : Donald Trump's Syria strike looks a lot like Barack Obama's plan, despite what Rubio, others say

Making the caseIn August 2013, Assad's regime killed more than 1,400 people in a chemical weapons attack on the city of Damascus. Our rulingRubio said the Obama administration's 2013 Syria airstrike proposal "had no clear objective," while Trump's Syria strike "had a clear strategic objective." But almost four years ago, Rubio opposed President Barack Obama's plan to order airstrikes in Syria, also after dictator Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against his people. The 2017 chemical weapons attack was much smaller, killing about 80 people. Obama wanted to strike Syria in retaliation, but he chose to ask Congress to authorize his use of military force.


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Donald Trump's deal with China isn't so great

The hard reality is that on both security and economic issues, the United States and China are rivals — not partners — and much tougher days lie ahead. Rather, it offers state-directed capitalism and authoritarian governance to developing nations as a superior model to what the United States and European democracies offer. For several decades, China accomplished double-digit growth by exporting consumer goods to western markets while keeping its economy tightly controlled. On trade, either the United States obtains from China a blueprint with enforceable benchmarks to reduce and ultimately eliminate the trade deficit or the United States should impose such an arrangement unilaterally. The United States absorbed the brunt of this onslaught.

Donald Trump's Unsurprising Flip-Flops

[RELATED: Donald Trump and the Shallow State] RELATED CONTENT RELATED CONTENT Donald Trump and the Shallow State Trump's vow to run the government like his business is proving less a promise than a threat. And as my colleague Dave Catanese put it: " Donald Trump loves to talk about how he's winning. Donald Trump is executing his long-awaited pivot toward being a semi-respectable, conventional politician! For example, the Post's fact-checking column characterized Trump as the "king of flip-flops." And The Atlantic's David Graham has a piece entitled, "All the President's Flip-Flops."


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