Less than two hours after Russia issues its first statement on Trump’s Syria withdrawal, the president takes the unusual step of canceling a meeting with the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Corker of Tennessee—doing so while Corker is waiting in the White House to meet with him.20 Reports following the snub indicate that Corker was planning to ask Trump about Syria.21 One report notes that Corker, along with “many senators,” was “blindsided … by Trump’s decision to pull all 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria as quickly as possible.”
