Trump’s Far-Right Supporters Turn on Him Over Syria Strike -
By MATTHEW HAAGAPRIL 7, 2017
Some of President Trump’s most ardent campaign supporters were among his most vocal opponents on Thursday after he ordered the missile
strike against Syria, charging him with breaking his promise to keep the United States out of another conflict in the Middle East.
Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created Dilbert, wrote on his website on Thursday before the missile strike
that the chemical weapons attack appeared to be a “manufactured event.”
A few hours before the missile strike, the far-right blogger Mike Cernovich warned
his followers in a live video that the United States was going to attack Syria.
The schism among the president’s far-right supporters had been building since Mr. Trump said
his attitude toward Syria had “changed very much” after the chemical weapons attack.
Some of those supporters claimed, without evidence,
that the chemical weapons attack was a hoax carried out by the “deep state” — what they believe to be a nebulous network of military officials working behind the scenes — to drag the United States into war.
