According to new polling, most Americans aren’t buying what the president is selling on Iran
. On Thursday, Trump told reporters that “we did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy” and “for other reasons that were very obvious,” suggesting perhaps American intelligence justified a strike, but at this point a coherent communication strategy around the attack is a pipe dream.
The fact that voters don’t believe Trump’s initial wave of messaging could be good for Democrats, who are relying on the president’s unreliability to gin up support for a war-powers resolution containing him. At the same time, however, a slight majority of respondents—53 percent—agreed with the statement that killing Soleimani “shows Iran that the U.S. won’t be pushed around.
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