President Trump made Sen. Chuck Schumer his poster child for Democratic hypocrisy on the Iran nuclear on Thursday, pointing out that the politician was against it when it was signed but now says he supports it.
Trump hit the fellow New Yorker in a tweet that referred to him by the derogatory nickname ‘Cryin’ Chuck’ and compared him to fired FBI director James Comey.
‘Schumer fought hard against the Bad Iran Deal, even going at it with President Obama, & then Voted AGAINST it!’ Trump said. ‘Now he says I should not have terminated the deal – but he doesn’t really believe that! Same with Comey. Thought he was terrible until I fired him!’
The Senate Democratic responded with two words: ‘Be Best!’ The slam was a reference to Trump’s wife’s anti-cyber bullying campaign.
President Trump made Sen. Chuck Schumer his poster child for Democratic hypocrisy on the Iran nuclear on Thursday, pointing out that the politician was against it when it was signed but now says he supports it
Trump hit the fellow New Yorker in a tweet that referred to him by the derogatory nickname ‘Cryin’ Chuck’ (right) and compared him to fired FBI director James Comey
The Senate Democratic responded with two words: ‘Be Best!’ The slam was a reference to Trump’s wife’s anti-cyber bullying campaign
The New York Democrat voted against the deal when it came before the U.S. Senate in 2015 in a move that pitted him against then-President Barack Obama.
The top-ranking Democrat has since said the accord needs time breathe to see if it can work. Schumer said this week the that the Republican president doesn’t ‘have a real plan’ to replace it, in remarks that clearly irked Trump.
‘This is a little like replace and repeal — they had these words, they used them in the campaign, and they don’t have a real plan here,’ Schumer said, according to the Associated Press.
Trump lashed out against Schumer by name in a Cabinet meeting Wednesday.
The president noted that three years ago, when Obama was at the helm of the government, Schumer, who’s Jewish, opposed the accord that lifted stiff economic sanctions on Israel’s sworn enemy.
‘Some of the senators, I watch them now as they say, “Oh, he shouldn’t have done it.” But they don’t say it — the Democratic senators — they don’t say with their full throat; they don’t say it with heart. Because they have one problem: They were totally against it.
‘Like Chuck Schumer was totally against the deal. He voted against the deal. He was fighting with Obama. In fact, I remember reading at the time they ended up in a fight together over this deal because he wanted to protect Israel,’ Trump said.
‘And he knows this deal is very bad for Israel and very bad for the Middle East. But I know that they voted against it, and then you’ll see Chuck Schumer say, “Oh, he shouldn’t have ended the deal.” It’s like, oh — perhaps he changed his mind. But, by the way, the deal only got worse.’
After he smacked Schumer again on Thursday, this time by tweet, the
The White House ripped former President Obama and his secretaries of state on Wednesday after they derided President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran deal as mistake.
Obama in his statement slamming sitting President Donald Trump’s sanctions on Iran called for ‘principled, fact-based, and unifying leadership that can best secure our country and uphold our responsibilities around the globe.’
Clinton crowed that American’s ‘credibility is shot’ and ‘Iran is free to do what it wants’ now that the U.S. has no leverage.
Kerry argued that Trump’s announcement ‘weakens our security, breaks America’s word’ and ‘isolates us from our European allies,’ among other things.
‘I think based on each of those individuals’ lack of success in this entire process on foreign affairs, they would probably be the last three people that we would look to for advice and counsel, and whether or not we had made the right decisions,’ spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Wednesday at her daily briefing.
Former President Barack Obama reemerged on Tuesday to chide his predecessor for withdrawing the United States from an international agreement regulating Iran’s nuclear activities
Former Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton blasted Trump’s decision on social media, as well
Obama said in a long statement that he posted to social media accounts that Donald Trump had ‘a serious mistake’ in reneging on the United States’ end of the accord
If the deal falls apart because of Trump’s action, Obama warned, ‘We could be hastening the day when we are faced with the choice between living with that threat, or going to war to prevent it’
Obama rarely comments on his successor’s policies, even when they directly oppose positions he took in his two terms as president. He re-emerged on Tuesday, however. to chide Trump for withdrawing the United States from an international agreement regulating Iran’s nuclear activities.
Obama said in a long statement that he posted to social media accounts that Donald Trump had made ‘a serious mistake’ in reneging on the obligations the U.S. agreed to when it signed on to the accord.
‘Without the JCPOA, the United States could eventually be left with a losing choice between a nuclear-armed Iran or another war in the Middle East,’ he said.
If the deal falls apart because of Trump’s action, Obama warned, ‘We could be hastening the day when we are faced with the choice between living with that threat, or going to war to prevent it.’
Lecturing the sitting president, Obama explained that his administration knew that the 2015 accord it helped to negotiate would not address every Iranian threat.
‘We were clear-eyed that Iran engages in destabilizing behavior – including support for terrorism, and threats toward Israel and its neighbors,’ he said. ‘But that’s precisely why it was so important that we prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.’
‘Every aspect of Iranian behavior that is troubling is far more dangerous if their nuclear program is unconstrained. Our ability to confront Iran’s destabilizing behavior – and to sustain a unity of purpose with our allies – is strengthened with the JCPOA, and weakened without it.’
‘They would probably be the last three people that we would look to for advice and counsel,’ spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Wednesday at her daily briefing
The former secretary of state who lost out on the presidency to Trump, said it was a ‘big mistake’ to abandon the accord
Clinton crowed that American’s ‘credibility is shot’ and ‘Iran is free to do what it wants’ now that the U.S. has no leverage
In a tweet commenting on Obama’s post to Facebook, she asserted, ‘It will also be harder to deal with other threats like ballistic missiles and terrorism. Now we have no leverage and Iran is free to do what it wants’
Late in the evening on Tuesday, Clinton decided to chime in on Twitter.
The former secretary of state who lost out on the presidency to Trump, said it was a ‘big mistake’ to abandon the accord.
‘It makes America less safe and less trusted. Iran is now more dangerous. What’s plan B? Anyone who thinks bombing is the answer is woefully misinformed.’
A follow-up tweet said: ‘As Secretary of State, I helped negotiate the crippling international sanctions that brought Iran to the table. It would be much harder a second time, now that our credibility is shot.’
In a tweet commenting on Obama’s post to Facebook, she asserted, ‘It will also be harder to deal with other threats like ballistic missiles and terrorism. Now we have no leverage and Iran is free to do what it wants.’
Kerry, the United States secretary of state at the time the U.S. and Europe joined the alliance with China, Russia and Europe, also spoke out against Trump’s decision.
‘Instead of building on unprecedented nonproliferation verification measures, this decision risks throwing them away and dragging the world back to the brink we faced a few years ago,’ Kerry said in a statement. ‘The extent of the damage will depend on what Europe can do to hold the nuclear agreement together, and it will depend on Iran’s reaction.’
Obama’s secretary of state at the time the U.S. and Europe joined the alliance with China, Russia and Europe – John Kerry – also spoke out against Trump’s decision
Kerry could run afoul of the Logan Act, a 200+ year-old federal law that made it a felony for civilians to conduct foreign policy without authorization
Kerry said that Trump, who he did not reference by name, should not have outsourced that responsibility to Europe. ‘This is not in America’s interests,’ he added.
Trump has personally assailed Kerry for settling for the deal at hand instead of pushing for something that had more teeth. He mocked the ex-diplomat in a Friday speech for a bike accident Kerry had during talks with Iran in 2015 in France.
The president had already spoken out about Kerry’s ‘shadow diplomacy’ on Monday following news reports that the Obama administration official has secretly met with foreign governments in a bid to save the much-maligned deal.
‘The United States does not need John Kerry’s possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy on the very badly negotiated Iran Deal,’ the president wrote. ‘He was the one that created this MESS in the first place!’
He blasted Kerry again on Tuesday morning for huddling with foreign dignitaries, including the foreign minister of Iran and the presidents of France and Germany, in the lead-up to the announcement.
‘John Kerry can’t get over the fact that he had his chance and blew it! Stay away from negotiations John, you are hurting your country!’ Trump said.
Since leaving office, Obama has kept a promise to extract himself from the political debate, except in instances when Trump has taken direct aim at policies that defined the two-term Democrat’s presidency.
He said when he left office that although he would remain living in Washington, D.C. he planned to leave the duly elected president to the business of running the government.
Obama has only inserted himself in the conversation on two notable occasions last year: when Congress sought to unravel Obamacare and when Trump announced his decision to rip the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement.
His statement on Trump’s intent to bring Iran to its knees by slapping it with a load of sanctions noted that there will inherently be changes in U.S. policy from one administration to the next.
‘But the consistent flouting of agreements that our country is a party to risks eroding America’s credibility, and puts us at odds with the world’s major powers,’ he said.
‘Going forward, I hope that Americans continue to speak out in support of the kind of strong, principled, fact-based, and unifying leadership that can best secure our country and uphold our responsibilities around the globe,’ he challenged.