The claim in Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book that President Trump ordered the assassination of Syrian President Bashar Assad has the “whiff of truth,” Rep. Adam Smith said on Wednesday.

“Whether you take Bob Woodward’s book at face value or not, it’s got the whiff of truth, let’s just put it that way,” said Smith, who is the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. “When you think about several things that the president has tweeted out on other subjects that we’ve all seen, it’s not hard to imagine him waking up one day and saying, ‘Why can’t we just kill Assad? Let’s go kill him.’ ”