Trump insisted on Wednesday that the United States was not in effect paying Iran to agree to the recently negotiated peace agreement, and he angrily proclaimed that his deal was better than the one former President Barack Obama signed with Tehran in 2015.
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In an expletive-laden rant on Wednesday, Mr. Trump repeated his claim that Mr. Obama had given Iran “$1.7 billion in cash,” and then he derided his predecessor.
It’s always nice to see him swearing a blue streak when talking to journalists at the Group of 7 summit.
“And you know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama, and they said, ‘He’s a stupid son of a bitch,’” Mr. Trump said in comments that indicated how determined he is to be seen as a superior negotiator to Mr. Obama.
But not as a reasonable sensible thoughtful adult human being.
Few issues animate Mr. Trump and other critics of the Obama-era deal as much as the U.S. shipment to Tehran of $1.7 billion in cash a few months after that nuclear deal was agreed upon. That payment was a debt owed to Iran, which bought military equipment from the United States that it never received.
Debt, gift, whatever – Obama did it and Obama is more intelligent than he is therefore he is an epithet.
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