Trump?s far-right backers rebel over ?hoax? Syria attack
 

WASHINGTON: Far-right backers of US President Donald Trump rebelled on Friday after he ordered a missile strike to punish Syria for a suspected chemical ******* attack that killed 86 people.

Bandying the hashtag #Syriahoax, leaders of the "Alt-Right" white nationalist fringe lashed out at the president for abandoning his election campaign stances.

Some denied the suspected chemical attack took place. Others rejected the broadly accepted view that it was the hand of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Instead, they blamed anti-Assad fighters like the al-Sham Front, formerly al-Nusra, for a so-called false-flag attack meant to be pinned on Damascus.

Still others said Trump had fallen victim to the US "deep state", an ostensibly entrenched military-national security bureaucracy at odds with the new president’s anti-Washington views.

"Anyone who claimed Trump had blind loyalty had a wake-up call today," said Mike Cer**vich, one of the movement’s most prominent leaders and a populariser of often unfounded conspiracy theories.

"We all k**w that Assad would **t poison his own people," he said in an online video.

"We do k**w that the Deep State does want war with Russia, and they are using the Syria gas attack, which is a hoax, to start World War Three with Russia."

Alex Jones, whose "Infowars" website is a hub for the far-right movement, but others allege is a wellspring of the "fake news" phe**me**n, alleged that Tuesday’s attack was launched by Syrian opposition.

"Why would Assad do that when he is winning?" he asked in a webcast.

Jones argued it was a ruse to force Trump into line with Washington’s more traditional conservatives.

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