I’ve looked into those puffy lying eyes many times. They dart around from rim to rim, bleary and red.
They narrow as he searches for words. Terrified of being boring, or more probably of being caught out, he reaches for bigger words and crazier images, which he uses as a smokescreen.
That’s how he ended up saying the wrong thing about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe – a mistake that landed her back in prison in Iran – when he was up before us on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
