Trump was critical of Obama for failing to restrain Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Putin in their war on rebel forces in the country, said in his interview to two newspapers – the UK Times and the German tabloid Bild – in his office in the Trump Tower in New York, APA reported citing The Times.
“The US could have made them stick to “a line in the sand” but now it was “too late” and the lack of western intervention had helped create a humanitarian crisis. “Aleppo was nasty. I mean when you see them shooting old ladies walking out of town — they can’t even walk and they’re shooting ’em — it almost looks like they’re shooting ’em for sport — ah no, that’s ... a terrible situation”.