Steve Benen notes that President Trump doesn’t seem to be sticking to the script when it comes to Iran, contradicting NSA Bolton and Senator Graham (R-SC):
Act III features Donald Trump contradicting his allies. When a reporter asked the president yesterday afternoon where things stand with Iran, the president replied:
“We have no indication that anything has happened or will happen. But if it does, it will be met, obviously, with great force. We’ll have no choice.”
The key part of that answer, of course, was the presidential assertion that U.S. officials “have no indication that anything has happened or will happen.” That was a far cry from Lindsey Graham’s assertion, made just hours earlier after hearing from John Bolton, “It is clear that over the last several weeks Iran has attacked pipelines and ships of other nations and created threat streams against American interests in Iraq.”
The only real conclusion to draw is that President Trump is a demented old man who can’t keep up a good lie. Why the Republicans continue to rally around him is the real continuing mystery.
