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six months ago here in New York City, I

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made the case that Donald Trump was dangerously incompetent and

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incapable of world leadership in the past few days in

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the wake of the killing of the Iranian general solo

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money, I think Donald Trump has proven beyond that

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comment beyond dispute, haphazard decision making process that led

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up to it the failure to consult with our allies

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or Congress and the reckless disregard for the consequences that

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would surely follow. I was, in my view

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, dangerously incompetent. VOCs in wake of such an

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enormous escalation that has exploded geopolitics in the region and

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put the United States and Iran on a collision course

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that what we expect from an American president Well,

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what we've heard from what have we heard from President

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Trump? We have not heard a sober minded explanation

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to assure the American reassure the American people that this

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decision and his consequences were thought through no level headed

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words meant to dial down the tensions and thio take

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us off the path of conflict. No press conference

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or consultation with our Congress. No, what we

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heard so far from this president tweets, threads and

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tantrums all we've heard from this administration or shifting explanations

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, evasive answers, repeated assertions of an imminent threat

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without the necessary evidence to support that conclusion. And

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since this is a president with the history of lying

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about virtually everything who has destroyed his own credibility in

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that of the United States on a global stage,

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knew the American people nor our allies. And indeed

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no one around the world seems to be taking his

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word for it. If there was an imminent threat

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that required this extraordinary action that that we are,

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we're owed an explanation and the facts to back it

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up. But the, uh, these matters are

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deadly import, and to me, they are unmistakably

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clear. Donald Trump does not have me make it

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clear. Does not have the authority to go toward

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Iran without congressional congressional authorization. Hi, everyone.

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