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His administration unable to keep its story straight about how exactly General Qasem Soleimani posed an “imminent threat” to U.S. national security, President Trump now claims it “really doesn’t matter” if the assassinated Iranian commander was about to kill Americans. Nothing could be further from the truth. The question of …

Mike Pompeo has had a busy first few days of 2020. In the wake of last week’s Trump-ordered drone strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, the secretary of state has been a fixture on cable news, regurgitating Iraq-invasion talking points and making specious claims about how the attack was …