The Washington Post: "Trump’s strike on Syria disrupts the narrative that he is Putin’s pal."
President Trump raised the ire of his counterpart in Moscow by striking a Syrian airfield Thursday, and in doing so disrupted the media narrative that he is too cozy with Russian President Vladimir Putin.MSNBC: "What if Putin planned the Syrian chemical attack to help Trump?"
A volley of U.S. cruise missiles had barely been launched into Syria before the Internet filled up with fact-free theories about the real reason for an international crisis. ...
A slightly more convoluted strain on the left: Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the chemical weapons massacre to help Trump — distracting Americans from an investigation into Trump's campaign ties to Russia by provoking the missile strike. ...
Lawrence O'Donnell advanced similar speculation on his MSNBC show, “The Last Word.” ...
“Wouldn't it be nice,” O'Donnell asked a nodding, smiling Rachel Maddow, “if it was just completely, totally, absolutely impossible to suspect that Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in Syria this week — so that his friend in the White House could have a big night with missiles and all the praises he's picked up over the past 24 hours?”You can't make this stuff up.
The theory was impossible to rule out, O'Donnell said, because of the Trump campaign's ties to the Russian government.
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