Amash: Trump claim about US embassy threats 'seems to be totally made up'

[Judi Lynn]

BY JUSTIN WISE - 01/12/20 02:36 PM EST 0

Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.), an Independent who left the Republican Party last year, said Sunday that President Trump's claim that Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was plotting attacks against four U.S. embassies "seems to be totally made up."

"The administration didn’t present evidence to Congress regarding even one embassy," Amash tweeted.

"And they have never presented evidence of imminence — a necessary condition to act without congressional approval — with respect to any of this," he added, referencing Trump administration officials' justification for launching an airstrike that killed Soleimani.

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Amash's statements came just hours after Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on CBS's "Face the Nation" that he had not seen any "specific evidence" that supported Trump's claim that Iran was planning attacks on four embassies. Rather, Esper argued that Trump's position was that "there probably and could've been attacks against additional embassies."

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/477906-amash-trump-claim-about-us-embassy-threats-seems-to-be-totally-made

[empedocles]

1. Yep. Made up as the 'cons go along.

[Kaiserguy]

2. That has been Trumps whole life

one BS lie after another. Yet his base buys every lie he tells.