By Aaron Blake, CNN
Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty Images / AFP
Analysis - In 2008, Donald Trump took to CNN to bemoan the dangers of a president lying the United States into war.
He said George W Bush was more worthy of impeachment than Bill Clinton. Why? Clinton's misdeeds were "totally unimportant," Trump told Wolf Blitzer. But with Iraq, he said, "Bush got us into this horrible war with lies - by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true."
Trump would revisit this line frequently during his successful 2016 presidential campaign.
Given that, you might think he would be extra careful in making his own case for military intervention.
You'd think wrong.
Instead, the president and his administration treated building a case for ousting NicolΓ‘s Maduro and asserting control over Venezuela much like Trump treats everything else: with a facts-optional barrage of hyperbolic claims and questionable assertions.
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