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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2011 Trump: "Our president (Obama) will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate."
Roll Call Factbase Videos YouTube channel hosts a 2018 repost of the 2011 Trump video in which he spoke about Pres. Obama and Iran:
Trump:
"Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective. So the only way he figures that he's going to get reelected, and as sure as you're sitting there, is to start a war with Iran. Now, I'm more militant and more militaristic than the president. I believe in strength. But to start a war in order to get elected, and I believe that's going to happen, would be an outrage.
I would never take the military card off the table and it's possible that it'll have to be used because Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, but you've gotta exhaust other possibilities. And we're in a great position to do it. They know, or they at least must know, that they're in a little bit of heat because there's a lot of pressure to attack. This is a great time to negotiate. Unfortunately, we have a president that doesn't know the first thing about negotiation. We have a real problem in the White House... Isn't it pathetic?
I would never take the military card off the table and it's possible that it'll have to be used because Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, but you've gotta exhaust other possibilities. And we're in a great position to do it. They know, or they at least must know, that they're in a little bit of heat because there's a lot of pressure to attack. This is a great time to negotiate. Unfortunately, we have a president that doesn't know the first thing about negotiation. We have a real problem in the White House... Isn't it pathetic?
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article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-trump-once-said-192200549.html
IranUnited States relations during the Obama administration
IranUnited States relations during the Obama administration (20092017) were defined by a shift from confrontation to cautious engagement, culminating in the landmark nuclear agreement of 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_States_relations_during_the_Obama_administration
IranUnited States relations during the Obama administration (20092017) were defined by a shift from confrontation to cautious engagement, culminating in the landmark nuclear agreement of 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93United_States_relations_during_the_Obama_administration
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2011 Trump: "Our president (Obama) will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate." (Original Post)
bigtree
5 hrs ago
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William Seger
(12,361 posts)1. The only "negotiating" #rump EVER does is intimidation
He's just a bully, not a dealmaker, and the MAGA cultists are exactly like the kids who followed the schoolyard bully around.
bigtree
(93,905 posts)2. he tore up the agreement Sec. Clinton and Pres. Obama negotiated with Iran
...boasting he could make a better one.
He's nothing but a psychopath who craves committing one despicable act after the other. He's now on to the things he claimed he wouldn't do, like a power junkie should be expected to do.
We're long past assuming his ability to do anything more each and every day than ingratiate and defend himself.