Trump said earlier that “he has a tough past, we all have tough pasts.”
Here’s Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa’s tough past via Wikipedia:
Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a Syrian Sunni Muslim family from Daraa and the Golan Heights, he grew up in Syria’s capital, Damascus. Al-Sharaa joined al-Qaeda in Iraq shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq and fought for three years in the Iraqi insurgency. American forces captured and imprisoned him from 2006 to 2011. His release coincided with the Syrian Revolution against the Ba’athist dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. Al-Sharaa created the al-Nusra Front in 2012 with the support of al-Qaeda to topple the Assad regime in the Syrian civil war. As emir of the al-Nusra Front, al-Sharaa built a stronghold in the northwestern Idlib Governorate. He resisted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi‘s attempts to merge al-Nusra Front with the Islamic State, leading to armed conflict between the two groups. In 2016, al-Sharaa cut al-Nusra’s ties with al-Qaeda and launched a crackdown on its loyalists.
I’m assuming he may have literally killed American troops in Iraq, something that would have had the right wing in a full blown hysteria not all that long ago. Today, they don’t care. In fact, they are happy to see their Dear Leader calling his a good friend and spraying him with perfume in the oval office.
We should never, ever, in a million years take these assholes seriously about anything except their desire for power again. It’s literally all they care about.