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Woodward: British Prime Minister Thought Obama Wasn’t Tough Enough To Stand Up To Putin

Hank Berrien

According to author Bob Woodward, former British Prime Minister David Cameron thought former President Barack Obama wasn’t tough enough to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom Woodward accurately described as thugs.

Speaking with radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday about Woodward’s new book about Trump, “Fear,” Woodward said, “Trump has made it clear he’s going to be tough. If you look back on the Obama presidency, he just wasn’t tough enough. David Cameron, when he was British Prime Minister, I talked to him about Obama, and while Obama was president. And he said, ‘I like him, he’s so smart, but no one’s afraid of him.’ And you cannot operate in the world of Assad’s and Putin’s and you name the thugs around the world …”

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