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Team Trump squares up to rip Red and Blue critics of Iran peace deal
The Trump administration has spent the last several days blasting away at bipartisan critics in Congress and from the usually friendly rightwing media sphere after the president signed a deal last week with Iran to stop the fighting and move toward more comprehensive negotiations. Things appear poised to get a lot worse as the pressure builds in Washington. For some powerful members of Congress, President Donald Trump’s biggest failure was not in starting a war the U.S. couldn’t win militarily, but forging a deal to end it. In fact, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) called the signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran this week the "worst foreign policy blunder in decades.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who spent the week calling the MOU a betrayal of Israel, is no less vociferous in his opposition. “History teaches that giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea,” Cruz told reporters. “I think the president is receiving some very poor advice on this deal.” Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Mo.) said that the $300 billion account to fund the rebuilding of Iran — one of the measures in the signed MOU‚ "would make Iran's payoff under President Obama's 2015 deal look like a pittance by comparison." It is not clear who would pay for the rebuilding spelled out in the MOUL and with what, though the return of frozen Iranian funds is another measure in the 14-point agreement, drawing comparisons to President Obama’s 2015 deal to curb the Iranian nuclear program, otherwise known as the JCPOA. The agreement does not say how much the Iranian regime would be getting back right away. Still, across the aisle, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) seemed to agree with Republican Sen. Wicker. "Remember this whole nuclear deal now? No better than what we had back in 2015, back when Barack Obama cut the deal.” "And that's where Donald Trump winds us up after all of this?" she added. "What an embarrassment." Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) wants to kill the MOU, posting on X, “We had an Iran nuclear deal. Trump tore it up. Now, his ‘deal’ includes a $300 billion payoff for Iran and no new limits on its nuclear program. This is a joke. Congress must review and reject this deal immediately.” Turn on any broadcast of Congress’s response to the MOU and you are likely to see Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who, unlike the last four months of the war, is now ubiquitous in his harangues against peace. “Look, this is not the art of the deal,” he loves to say, “this is the art of surrender. It’s not peace through strength. It’s payoffs through weakness.” These members appear to be in high energy to invoke a 2015 law passed during the Obama era nuclear negotiations that requires the president to go to Congress with any agreement involving the regime’s nuclear program. Under that law, Congress has to review, and could vote to disapprove Trump’s deal (though the president could, in turn, try to veto it). Bipartisanship in action! It’s worth noting that a YouGov poll of Americans taken from June 17-19 released Sunday showed that even 60% of Republicans wanted the Iran war to end immediately. The Republican members of Congress opposed to this deal are of the hawkish variety and would likely oppose any end to this war short of regime change. The Democrats opposed to this deal are somewhere between hawks and AIPAC loyalists like Schumer who want the war to continue indefinitely but can’t say so openly, but also those concerned about Trump getting a win before the midterm elections in the midst of an unpopular war. Luckily there are e Democrats like Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) who openly support the deal, and GOP Sen. Rand Paul (R-K.Y.), who agrees with the president and says, “I’m standing with him on peace.” Team Trump’s pushback on critics has been fierce. Vice President J.D. Vance warned members of Israel’s government who are vehemently opposed to the MOU that they should be careful in how they think and talk about the United States in this precarious moment. Vance said at a press briefing on Thursday, “I will say, and this does bother me, is that you've seen people within Bibi's cabinet who have come out and attacked the deal and in some ways very personally attacked the President of the United States.” “Number one, Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time, and he happens to be the head of state of the world's superpower,” Vance said. “If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.” Vance’s words were not only a shot at Israeli leaders, but also at opponents of the Iran deal at home. News Nation’s Batya Ungar-Sargon appeared to speak for the bipartisan Washington coalition for forever war, posting on X Thursday, “VP JD Vance just brought the US to its knees with a humiliating deal weeks before our 250th birthday and he has the audacity to blame … Israel! … for the terrible situation we’re in. We're watching the Tucker Carlsonification of our Vice President in real time.” The White House’s Rapid Response Team did not play around in its response to her, “The only humiliation here is Batya desperately begging for an additional brain cell because her failing TV is show is even more irrelevant than the likes of Kaitlan Collins and Fake Tapper. Only a moron of her caliber could still doubt President Trump's leadership.” When national security writer David Reaboi mocked Vance and his defense of the MOU by writing, “Imagine what kind of online brainrot it takes for a bright, educated guy to morph into a more articulate Theo Von,” Team Trump’s ferocious response was, “Imagine what kind of online brainrot it takes to convince yourself that anyone wants to read the dim-witted ravings of a complete nobody like ‘Dave Reaboi’ on Substack.” The White House added, “Never Trumpers like this loser are the worst thing that ever happened to this country. Disgraceful.” This tiny sample of the White House’s response account alone demonstrates the hardball the administration is willing to play in defending this deal against virtually anyone of any ideological persuasion. It’s a 180-degree whiplash from how it was treating conservative war skeptics like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene just a couple of months ago. When former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Theissen claimed that “sources in the White House have assured” him “that this is not Trump’s position,” meaning the president did not agree with Vance’s defense of the MOU and criticism of Israel, the White House firmly put him in his place, “Respectfully, everything the Vice President has said is what the President has said and believes.” “If you disagree with the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, that’s on you,” Team Trump added. This could be key to keeping the MOU in place, which already has problems given the geopolitical volatility (will Israel behave?) and Trump’s own tendency to talk trash, as the president did in a Fox News interview on Sunday. Despite how Sens. Ted Cruz, Bill Cassidy, Elizabeth Warren, or Chuck Schumer feel about a potential peace or this president, this shouldn’t be a time for partisan flailing but finally putting the true American national interest first. Which means getting out of this war. No matter how the U.S. got into it, and no matter how bad some want to stay. Save the politics for the actual elections and listen to the people you represent.
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Look who’s losing it over Trump’s Iran deal
When Trump launched a war against Iran in late February, his MAGA movement suddenly became nearly indistinguishable from the neoconservative foreign policy Trump once abhorred. For nearly four months, Washington hawks like Senator Lindsey Graham and radio jock Mark Levin were riding high. But over time it became clearer that the president was looking for a way out and now the president has reportedly reached a memorandum of understanding with Iran to end the fighting, open the Strait of Hormuz, and to keep talking. Trump’s friends, who were hoping for Iranian capitulation and regime change, even if that meant indefinite bombing and blockading, aren’t very happy today. Levin appeared to be in despair on his Fox News Sunday night program, insisting that Congress must approve of any Iran deal (Levin never cared that Congress wasn’t consulted to go to war). “It won’t stand,” he ranted. “It won’t stand for long even during the Trump presidency. Israel will not be able to adhere to what would be a suicide pact!” Levin even tussled with a Trump adviser over the deal. A frustrated Ben Shapiro of The Daily Wire demanded the release of the memorandum. “Here's the amazing thing about written agreements: they are comprised of words we can all read and then form opinions about! It's really neat!” “So release the MOU text. Now,” he stormed. “This is a very bad deal for the United States,” groused former National Security Advisor John Bolton. He taunted his old boss. “They’ve played him like a violin. That’s why they’ve got the deal that they want.” Bush-Cheney alumni Marc Theissen dismissed it as “the Vance deal,” referring to the Vice President. Sen. Graham was reportedly “skeptical” of the deal and then got rather passive-aggressive. “Under our law, any nuclear deal with Iran will be sent to Congress for review and a vote,” he posted on X. “I look forward to reviewing the final product and I believe it is imperative that the architect of the deal, Vice President Vance and his negotiating partners, be part of the process in presenting the final deal to Congress," he added.” Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) warned that “dark forces are trying to break the American-Israeli alliance.” Presumably one of those “dark forces” is the president for wanting a deal? The habitually hawkish Erick Erickson rolled out the shopworn smears. “The racists and antisemites support the Iran deal,” he posted on X. To which independent journalist Glenn Greenwald responded , “once again, the pro-Israel right has no discourse other than to scream RACIST and ANTI-SEMITE at everyone who disagrees with them.” Notice that with the exception of perhaps Bolton, none of these critics are going after Trump directly. They talk about betraying Israel, antisemitism, or they blame Vance. “I feel very sad for the protestors in Iran who lost their lives,” a clearly distraught Laura Loomer posted. “Nearly 100,000 innocent people slaughtered this year in Iran by the Iranian regime and IRGC.” There is no evidence that 100,000 Iranians were killed in the protests, but that is besides the point, the idea that this war was to liberate Iranians was exposed as farce as soon as bombs started falling on Tehran, killing civilians including 120 schoolchildren, on Feb. 28. Former George W. Bush Administration mouthpiece Ari Fleischer shared Loomer’s post. “I still don’t trust Iran,” he also wrote, as if absolute trust in any country is a requirement for diplomatic agreements. “Trust but verify” Ronald Reagan once said to his critics. Meanwhile Zionist evangelical preacher John Hagee declared that “no deal is better than a bad deal.” Trump’s own U.S. ambassador to Israel and Evangelical Zionist Mike Huckabee appeared to defy the president or at least undermine the deal. “Without Israel, there would not be an America. We owe our very existence to what happened in this land.” To remind everyone, Israel’s government was founded in 1948 and the United States celebrates its 250th birthday on July 4. There are more examples of the meltdown of course, but no need to overwhelm the reader. This episode was probably summed up best by Vice President Vance, who reportedly said on Tuesday of his administration’s current critics like Mark Levin and others: "It is kind of ironic that they’re really, really worried about stopping this thing when they were so gung-ho about starting this thing." Yes they are. And yes they were.
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SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain, June 12 - Pope Leo on Friday issued a stern warning to human traffickers and criminal groups who exploit desperate migrants trying to reach Europe through Spain's Canary Islands, telling them to \"repent\" before God or face being sent to hell.
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