Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi might have been “bad guys,” he allows, but “at least they killed terrorists.” Ditto for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, whom he has often characterized as a lesser, and more preferable, evil than Islamic State. This is our cover story from our Maissue, months before Donald Trump surprised the world and was elected president of the United States.ĭonald Trump has a bit of a thing for strongmen. (Photo Illustration by Levi Nicholson and Richard Redditt) Trump/Putin rides a horse in the Siberian wilderness.
