Claim To Fame: 45th President of the United States
Why He's The Person of the Week: for teaming up with France and the UK to launch successful strikes on Syria to retaliate for a suspected chemical weapons attack and for pardoning former Dick Cheney Chief-of-Staff Scooter Libby.
Trump announced Friday night that he ordered precision missile strikes in conjunction with French and British allies against the Syrian government. The President noted that the strike was underway in areas in and around the Syrian capital of Damascus were struck. In proof that the mission met its target, yesterday the Pentagon announced that the Syria strikes hit the ‘heart’ of the rogue nation's chemical weapons program.
As for Libby, known as "Scooter," who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in 2007 in connection with the overblown leak of a CIA officer's identity, Trump did what George W. Bush should've done while he was still President: grant Libby a full pardon. Bush had commuted Libby's sentence but did not issue a full pardon. "I don't know Mr. Libby, but for years, I have heard that he has been treated unfairly," Trump said in a statement from the White House.
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