As The Threat Of War Looms, Americans Have A President And Staff Who Lie All The Time
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters about the G7 Summit aboard Air Force One while traveling back to Washington from Canada on June 16.
What happens when a presidential administration with no fidelity to facts or the truth prepares for a possible entry into another Middle East war?
Americans may be about to find out, with reality-game-show-host-turned-president Donald Trump claiming he wants a “deal” with Iran to end its nuclear weapons programme while simultaneously helping Israel mount a major attack on the country and accepting Israel’s claim that Iran was aggressively pursuing a nuclear weapon.
“I don’t care what she said,” Trump told reporters on his flight back to Washington on Tuesday, when asked why his own top intelligence official, Tulsi Gabbard, had recently told Congress the exact opposite. “I think they were very close to having one.”
Whether Director of National Intelligence Gabbard’s testimony in March was accurate is also unclear.
Gabbard last month fired two intelligence officials after the leak of a report finding that the Venezuelan government was not directing the actions of the criminal gang Tren de Aragua in the United States, contrary to assertions made by Trump’s White House.
On Tuesday, Gabbard, who built her career in Democratic politics on her opposition to the Iraq War prior to her pro-Trump conversion, told........
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