In matters of national security, whom should we trust more–career professionals within the intelligence community, who are trained to make sober and collective assessments based on evidence, or a single man driven by narcissism and a habitual disconnect from the truth?

Before our aircraft had even returned to base, former President Trump declared total success in crippling Iran’s nuclear program, boasting of complete obliteration. The problem? No such confirmation had been made. What followed was a retroactive twisting of facts to validate a narrative that appeared more concerned with self-aggrandizement than strategic accuracy.

Perhaps the strike itself was justified–perhaps not. But the results, at best, remain inconclusive. In critical moments like these, America needs leadership grounded in reality, maturity, and judgment–not impulsive declarations and petulant theatrics.

A president’s duty is not to play to his own legend but to responsibly steward the truth. The stakes are too high for anything less. Trump would be a lot more believable if he stopped telling lies.

RON KAMZELSKI

Wellsboro

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