.MaddowBlog: Asked about his credibility crisis, Pres. Trump tries to change the subject.
During a brief Q&A with reporters yesterday, Donald Trump was asked a question that few American presidents have ever heard. “Why should Americans trust your administration to tell the truth about what’s going on with Iran?” a journalist asked. “If we go to war, why should we believe you if you say why?”
And the result is a crisis of credibility so severe that a reporter felt justified asking the president, to his face, why the public should believe his claims about a looming national security crisis. “Well, we have Iran. We’ve been talking to various people on lots of different sides. And we’ll see what happens with Iran. We’re very well set. We’re very well configured. We have a lot of things going on with Iran.
And as weird as that was, it seemed even more notable that the president made no effort to push back against the idea that he lacks credibility on matters of global significance.
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