One of President Trump’s top assistants said Saturday that Syria’s chemical attack on its own people proves that former national security adviser Susan Rice was wrong when she said that country had purged its chemical weapons stockpiles.
“Who told us that Syria no longer had chemical weapons? It wasn’t just the Russians. It was also Susan Rice,” Deputy Assistant to President Trump Sebastian Gorka told Fox on Saturday.
Gorka was referencing a January National Public radio interview the former national security adviser gave in which she touted “success” in Syria. She praised President Obama’s ability to strike a deal with Russia that prompted Obama to drop his threat of military action against the Assad regime.
“We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile,” Rice told National Public Radio in January.
Gorka also stressed that diplomacy and words carry little weight when they are not backed up by force.
“We have in just a few days reasserted statesmanship in a way that has been look for almost a decade. Diplomacy, words, treaties, they mean nothing. If there isn’t force to back it up. With just one strike that message was sent to all these people,” Gorka said.
