Tulsi Gabbard: Assad should be 'executed' if proven behind Syria chemical attack

Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Thursday demanded that Syrian President Bashar Assad be "executed" if it is confirmed he ordered the deadly chemical attack earlier this week that killed dozens of Syrian civilians, according to a report.

The Hawaiian lawmaker, who met with Assad earlier this year, made that statement on the same day President Trump authorized a missile strike against the airbase from which the chemical attack is believed to have originated, according to Hawaii News Now.

After the stike, Gabbard put out another statement condeming the administration for acting "recklessly without care or consideration of the dire consequences of the United States attack on Syria without waiting for the collection of evidence from the scene of the chemical poisoning."

Trump, in his address to the nation following the U.S. military operation, unequivocally pinned the blame on Assad for the chemical weapons attack, which killed about 80 people, including children.

"Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians using a deadly nerve agent," he said.