Sen. Adam Schiff, D-California, criticizes President Donald Trump over what he describes as inconsistencies about U.S. actions and negotiations related to the war with Iran. In remarks Thursday, Schiff says Trump is “telling falsehood after falsehood” and argues that the president’s account of the status of efforts to end the conflict “lacks a lot of credibility,” according to The Hill. The criticism follows a sequence of statements from Trump earlier in the day: he threatens to ramp up strikes on Tehran, then later cancels or walks back that posture, asserting that Iran’s supreme leader has approved a deal intended to reopen negotiations, as reported by The Hill. Mediaite similarly frames Schiff’s comments as a response to contradictions in Trump’s narrative, adding that Schiff says Americans no longer “know when to believe him.” The two accounts focus on Schiff’s claim that the president’s statements about Iran and the state of negotiations conflict with one another.