As Twitchy told you, Samantha Power and Jon Favreau are crying foul over Trump’s reported intent to pull out of the Iran Deal. But let’s face it: it’s not a real Iran Deal withdrawal meltdown until Ben Rhodes joins the party. Good thing he came through:
Trump is about to do something opposed by the American people and our closest allies for no reason other than the fact that Barack Obama was involved in negotiating the Iran Deal. https://t.co/tt2yPgPv2Z
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) May 8, 2018
As someone who spent years of her life putting in place sanctions on Iran under Bush and Obama, I am horrified by the delusional view that we can easily regain the leverage that took years of painstaking "sanctions diplomacy" with our allies, Russia, China, Japan and India.
— Kelly Magsamen (@kellymagsamen) May 8, 2018
It took five years of diplomacy to build the sanctions regime and two years of diplomacy to reach a Deal. Trump is blowing that up with no understanding of what's actually in the Deal, no plan for what comes next, and no support from our closest European allies, Russia or China. https://t.co/59c3uQtKI5
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) May 8, 2018
Precious. Just precious.
Beyond the potentially catastrophic consequences with Iran, Trump's decision is devastating to U.S. credibility globally. After this, why would anyone trust an international agreement that the U.S. negotiates?
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) May 8, 2018
Why would anyone broker an international agreement with Iran, whose government you yourself said was known to be dishonest and corrupt?
You really think this is why Trump is doing this? Really? There could be no other reasons other than "Obama cut the deal?" https://t.co/pQmhT48G2h
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) May 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/scrapp_usmc/status/993889959013597184
Sounds like the problem with this Tweet and the one it answers is these two people wasted years on a bad deal not even supported by Obama's Senate allies and they're butthurt. https://t.co/Qwj5M1El2C
— Nathan, son of Robert (@NathanWurtzel) May 8, 2018
Support from Russia and China?
LOL… take a nap, Ben. https://t.co/LEVcuoZoaF
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) May 8, 2018
Obama hacks crying about the destruction of their hard work that they didn't have the cojones to take to the Senate, as if they're entitled to its permanence by dint of their hard work, is basically peak Obama hack.
— (((≠))) (@ThomasHCrown) May 8, 2018
Don't forget the mountains of lies you had to tell the press and the American people, you put a lot of time into that too. https://t.co/Ty4hJoDpji
— WhiteHousePressCorps (@whpresscorps) May 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/NameRedacted7/status/993891978315292672
Remember how Ben Rhodes bragged about lying to sell the Iran deal? Remember how Iran captured and humiliated our sailors? Remember how they killed and injured hundreds of American troops in Iraq? https://t.co/uF6X1eSgFC https://t.co/ZXwKTJ7Bdt
— J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) May 8, 2018
1. Why would anyone trust Iran? I mean, weren't we just assured, repeatedly, that everyone knew Iran couldn't be trusted but we did the deal anyway?
2. Maybe next time, send the deal through Congress if you want to bind future Presidents. https://t.co/ocm8oyaKMT— Mo Mo (@molratty) May 8, 2018
Because the Senate ratifies it, which didn’t happen in this case. https://t.co/F1ChadiqMC
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 8, 2018
Maybe other countries will realize that deals a president won't submit for ratification as treaties are on shaky footing from the outset. https://t.co/QF8evysLoq
— Just Karl (@justkarl) May 8, 2018
Wait. It took you five years to come up with one of the worst deals ever? Wow, that says a lot.
— Ezra (@EzraDrissman) May 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/Matthew____P/status/993892535172034560
Dude this deal is a JOKE just like you
— Cameron (@cameronFTL) May 8, 2018
You’re a liar, and an abject failure. Your opinions and thoughts are now irrelevant, thank you.
— Missouri Dave (@MissouriDave1) May 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/realmutik/status/993892942661193730
Ah, yes … the Tears of Unfathomable Sadness!
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional text and tweets.
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