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https://www.politicususa.com/2020/01/11/trump-is-now-just-making-stuff-up-to-justify-his-iran-attack.htmlPosted on Sat, Jan 11th, 2020 by Jason Easley
Trump Is Now Just Making Stuff Up To Justify His Iran Attack
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said that the White Houses changing story on the Iran threat should cause the American people to ask if Trump is making stuff up.
Rep. Lieu said on MSNBC:
I went through the briefing and I agree with Republican senators Mike Lee and Rand Paul that that briefing was sorely lacking in details, information. It was basically essentially trust us and thats not what they should be doing. The administration should be providing actual evidence to members of congress. Ive learned more from watching MSNBC and reading the paper than I have from that briefing. At the end of the day its clear were less safe now than we were in the beginning of the year from Donald Trumps impulsive actions.
When Lieu was asked about Trumps claim that Iran was planning attacks on four US embassies, he answered,
I cant get into details of what was said. What I can say, the administrations story on what constitutes an imminent threat keeps changing. And it caused the American people to ask is the administration making stuff up?
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Trump is doing the same things now that he did before he ran for president. Remember Trumps team of investigators that were dispatched to find Obamas real birth certificate? They didnt exist.
Making stuff up is what Donald Trump has always done.
The Trump administration doesnt have any evidence to support their claims of threat, because there isnt any.
Reading between the lines of Rep. Lieus answer, it is clear that Iran attacking four US embassies were never mentioned in the briefing.
Trump is in trouble, so he is making things up to justify his actions after the fact.
The president thought that the Soleimani attack would boost his reelection campaign. Instead, it has shown why he must be voted out of office in 2020.
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Trump Is Now Just Making Stuff Up To Justify His Iran Attack (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2020
OP
When a lifelong pathological liar and malignant narcissist megalomaniac has been...
Guilded Lilly
Jan 2020
#4
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. Question,
Is Rudy G,Joe Leiberman,Chertof Lobbing Group behind this Iranian Assassination?
Seems we heard Rudy was playing with his Lipstick as well as issuing Statements out of Moochie-A-Lardo. Joe the traitor was making the Talk show rounds.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)2. Nothing new. He and this crew always make shit up . . .
babylonsister
(171,092 posts)3. I think attaching war crimes and assassination might be new,
especially because they have no reasonable explanation for killing him.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)4. When a lifelong pathological liar and malignant narcissist megalomaniac has been...
given free reign and is purposefully enabled by the biggest elected collection of a greed driven, power obsessed, corrupt to the core, reekingly foul political party, expect the most disgusting, lowlife outcome.
lame54
(35,324 posts)5. And it'll work
duforsure
(11,885 posts)6. And lying he was concerned it was a national security threat, when it wasn't.
It was again for redirection away from his impeachment , and only for his own political gains. Has he hit 20,000 lies yet?