Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad had gassed his own people, and the top military brass had come to the White House to meet with Trump to review his options. National Security Council officials had worked with Defense Department officials to prepare specific targets should Trump authorize a mission to take out, or at least temporarily weaken, Syria’s ability to fly chemical weapon sorties. But there was only one subject on Trump’s mind as the meeting began, and it wasn’t dead Syrian children. “So I just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys, a good man, and it’s a
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