Published:
January 13, 2020
LBJ Professor Will Inboden, chair of the Clements Center for National Security, commented to The Hill on the Trump administration's take that it doesn't matter whether Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani posed an imminent threat to the U.S.
"This administration already has a credibility problem, and President Trump has a pretty casual relationship with the truth," said Inboden, who served on former President George W. Bush's National Security Council. "So even when he does what I would regard as the right thing or a good policy decision with Soleimani, he then hurts himself and widens the credibility gap with these shifting explanations."