Ron Johnson: “More than 200,000 Syrians have been slaughtered by Assad.”

“How do you know back then? It's probably easier to define that. But as the situation just degraded. You know, most Americans don't realize More than 200,000 Syrians have been slaughtered by Assad. Now, I don't think anybody, you know, looking at Assad prior to this would have thought he had been capable of that. I mean, I just think that's true.” (05:07–05:12)

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