We don’t want the smocking gun to be a mosh-room pizza (Trust me, the rabbit’s there)

“Trump circumvented Congress to launch a strike on an official of a foreign government – a decision that has been deeply unpopular with the American people. The administration has claimed that Suleimani posed an ‘imminent threat’. The secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has been cagey about the alleged ‘imminent threat’, which has angered lawmakers. After a briefing by administration officials, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut concluded to reporters that the threat ‘doesn’t exist.’ Of course it doesn’t exist. If Donald Trump says, ‘Trust me, the thing exists,’ it definitely does not exist. He’s like a magician who says he’s going to pull a rabbit out of his hat, looks down, realizes the rabbit has chewed through the hat and escaped and says, ‘Trust me, the rabbit’s there.’” —Seth Meyers

Remember when Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, called Saddam Hussein’s (non-existent) pursuit of nuclear weapons a ‘smoking gun’ that could turn into a ‘mushroom cloud’. Of course it turned out there was neither a mushroom cloud nor a smoking gun, or as Trump has repeatedly called it, a ‘smocking gun’. That’s probably why Trump’s speechwriters have never even bothered to write a line like that for him, because they know he’d never be able to pronounce the words – ‘We don’t want the smocking gun to be a mosh-room pizza.’” —Seth Meyers

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