It sure sounds like Team Trump lied about an impending attack on Americans
Trump’s authority on Iran. Why the change of heart? It might have something to do with the fact that it has become increasingly clear that the administration took creative license with the truth when it cited an “imminent” attack Soleimani was planning on Americans.
To recap, in attempting to justify the president’s decision to launch a drone strike with the intention of killing a top Iranian leader, members of the administration have insisted that an attack against Americans was basically moments away. “There is no doubt that there were a series of imminent attacks that were being plotted by Qasem Soleimani,” Secretary of Statelast Thursday night on Fox News. “We don’t know precisely when, and we don’t know precisely where, but it was real.
The timing, however, could undermine the Trump administration’s stated justification for ordering the U.S. drone strike that killed Soleimani in Baghdad on January 3. Officials have said Soleimani, the leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, was planning imminent attacks on Americans and had to be stopped.Mike LeeCNN Sunday, “I didn’t hear anything about that. Several of my colleagues have said the same.
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