President Trump’s description of the “imminent threat” that led to the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani keeps evolving, at times appearing to contradict what his admin. shared with Congress and the public about what prompted his decision.
“None of the facts presented at the classified briefing supported that claim [that Soleimani was planning an attack on the embassy in Baghdad], and so, now you have them saying they can't provide this kind of information to senators in a highly classified setting, but the president is going to say that to the country,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Thursday on MSNBC’s"Andrea Mitchell Reports." “It just shows how they're making this up as they go.
"It was imminent, and it was very, very clear in scale, scope," Milley said."Did it exactly say who, what, when, where? No. But he was planning, coordinating and synchronizing significant combat operations against U.S. military forces in the region and it was imminent." But Trump’s latest remarks seemed to contradict some of Pompeo's comments earlier in the week. On Thursday night, Pompeo told Fox News the U.S. didn’t know “precisely when and we didn’t know precisely where” the attacks would be carried out.
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