Trump blames Putin for backing ‘Animal Assad’

Posted on AllSides April 8, 2018

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President Donald Trump leveled his most direct criticism yet at Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, taking to Twitter to say the Russian leader bears responsibility for a deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria.

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