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2020 contender Tulsi Gabbard won’t say if she thinks Assad is a war criminal

By Zach Halaschak
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2020 contender Tulsi Gabbard won’t say if she thinks Assad is a war criminal

Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard refused Sunday to say whether Syrian President Bashar Assad, accused by the Department of Defense and the United Nations of gassing his own people, is a war criminal.

“I think that the evidence needs to be gathered, and as I have said before, if there is evidence that he has committed war crimes, he should be prosecuted as such,” the Hawaii congresswoman said after being asked the question during a CNN town hall event Sunday.

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