Trump’s Far-Right Supporters Turn on Him Over Syria Strike -<br />By MATTHEW HAAGAPRIL 7, 2017<br />Some of President Trump’s most ardent campaign supporters were among his most vocal opponents on Thursday after he ordered the missile<br />strike against Syria, charging him with breaking his promise to keep the United States out of another conflict in the Middle East.<br />Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created Dilbert, wrote on his website on Thursday before the missile strike<br />that the chemical weapons attack appeared to be a “manufactured event.”<br />A few hours before the missile strike, the far-right blogger Mike Cernovich warned<br />his followers in a live video that the United States was going to attack Syria.<br />The schism among the president’s far-right supporters had been building since Mr. Trump said<br />his attitude toward Syria had “changed very much” after the chemical weapons attack.<br />Some of those supporters claimed, without evidence,<br />that the chemical weapons attack was a hoax carried out by the “deep state” — what they believe to be a nebulous network of military officials working behind the scenes — to drag the United States into war.
