Former President Barack Obama crawled out of the woodwork to lob potshots at President Trump.
The response was swift.
And JD Vance just silenced Barack Obama with one question that is checkmate.
President Trump often declared Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran the worst deal in history.
Obama shipped Iran pallets of $1,7 billion in cash as part of an agreement critics claim Iran could evade to eventually acquire a nuclear weapon and never dealt with Iran’s ballistic missile program or support for terrorist proxies Hamas and Hezbollah.
President Trump announced a new deal where Iran put in writing that it would never acquire a nuclear weapon and would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Never Trumpers like Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro, as well as neoconservatives, ripped Trump’s deal because it achieved Trump’s two core goals – avoid an endless war in the Middle East and prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon – but didn’t satisfy their demand for Trump to deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to Iran to fight a regime change war.
Democrats also hunted around for an opportunistic chance to attack the deal.
In an interview with ABC News, Obama falsely claimed the Trump deal was no different than the one he cut.
“It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different from, or a significant improvement on, the deal that we had in the first place and had worked for a long stretch of time before the United States pulled out of it. The notion that we can just bully our way or bomb our way to solutions may sometimes seem appealing, but the fact of the matter is that taking the time to explore diplomacy and exhaust the possibilities of coming up with deals that don’t solve 100% of the problem — while avoiding the necessity of going to war — is worthwhile,” Obama stated.
Obama offered up this line of attack knowing it would inflame establishment Republicans to try to kill Trump’s deal since any comparison to Obama is one of the gravest insults in American politics.
Vice President JD Vance squashed this scheme in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, where Vance made two points.
The first was that the other Gulf nations supported the Trump deal, whereas they all thought the Obama deal was weak.
“I’d ask the president, the former president, I’d say Obama, why in the world, if it’s the same thing, why is it that the Gulf Arabs hated your deal and they love our deal?” Vance stated.
Vance also noted that Obama’s deal handed Iran money and sanctions relief upfront, whereas Trump refused to allow Iran access to one dime unless they made good on dismantling their nuclear program.
“They are the ones in the region; they know what it means to enrich the worst terrorist regime in the world, and they also know what it means to turn over a new leaf and go to a different future,” Vance added.
“I think President Obama should acknowledge that the people who are closest to this, they love the Trump deal,” Vance continued.
Vance said the support of nations in the region for Trump’s deal, as opposed to their opposition to the Obama deal, was the best endorsement Trump’s agreement could get.
“They hate the Obama deal,” Vance went on to say.
“And that’s maybe the biggest endorsement of this plan,” Vance concluded.
Vice President Vance fires back at Obama for claiming the new Iran deal is basically the same as the JCPOA.
Vance then asked Obama one question that destroyed his entire argument.
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