Posted on 05/10/2019 8:33:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
During an event at the White House Thursday afternoon, President Trump ripped former Secretary of State John Kerry for his continuing shadow dealings with Iran.
"With Iran, I'd like to see them call me. You know, John Kerry speaks to them a lot. John Kerry tells them not to call. That's a violation of the Logan Act. And frankly, he should be prosecuted on that. But my people don't want to do anything. only the Democrats do that kind of stuff you know? If it were the opposite way, they'd prosecute him under the Logan Act," Trump said. "But John Kerry violated the Logan Act. He's talking to Iran and has been, has many meetings and many phone calls. And he's telling them what to do. That is a total violation of the Logan Act, because what they should be doing is their economy is a mess ever since I took away the Iran deal. They have inflation that's the highest number I've ever heard. They are having riots every weekend and during the week even."
Trump stressed Iran must come to the table in order to make a deal as their economy continues to fall apart.
"What they should be doing is calling me up, sitting down. We can make a deal, a fair deal. We just don't want them to have nuclear weapons, not too much to ask. And we would help put them back into great shape. They're in bad shape right now. I look forward to the day where we can actually help Iran. We're not looking to hurt Iran. I want them to be strong and great and have a great economy," he said. "But they're listening to John Kerry, who violated a very important element of what he's supposed to be doing. He violated the Logan Act, plain and simple. He shouldn't be doing that. But they should call, and if they do, we're open to talking to them. We have no secrets. And they can be very, very strong financially. They have great potential."
Kerry regularly meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Zarif and has urged him to "wait out" the Trump presidency.
John Kerry was asked point blank in September 2018 whether he was telling Iran to wait out President Trump. He did not deny it.@DanaPerino: "Is that accurate?”@JohnKerry: "Well, I think everybody in the world is sitting around talking about waiting out President Trump." pic.twitter.com/ThrNLWKjb9— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) May 9, 2019
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a surprise trip to Baghdad after the Department of Defense confirmed credible threats of attack against American interests. Wednesday marked the one year anniversary of the United States pulling out of the flawed Iran nuclear agreement. Iran has threatened to restart their nuclear program unless European countries still in the deal refuse to renegotiate parts of the deal. The regime is also refusing to fully comply with portions of the agreement.
“Iran did not fall into this trap”
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says Tehran isn't completely withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal although they are scaling back on some parts of it. More on @business: https://t.co/sG1OaHOcxg pic.twitter.com/3iHZ79bes5— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) May 8, 2019
We have too many Anti American traitors running our government. I believe this is why they hate Trump. He aint corrupt like the lifers in Congress.
Democrats have always supported the mullahs over the people. Even when they protest fixed elections and are getting shot.
Forget this sideshow with the Mueller report, haul his rice-filled arse before Congress NOW. That’s aid and comfort to the enemy, makes Fonda look like a choirgirl (not that she will EVER be forgiven.)
Hang him and Hillary for high treason. Give each of them and their co-conspirators two nooses, and line them up like those spheres that keep knocking against each other, then start the balls a-moving.
Sedition...........................
Bush League Republicans are the ones who stood the Constitution on its head so the Kenyan from Indonesia could get his Iran “deal”.
And it won’t stop because they know he’s a paper tiger. No one is getting locked up.
If Kerry (I served in Viet Nam) utters one word that puts American lives at danger, he should be tried for treason.
John Kerry has gotten away with sedition or violation of diplomacy for over two years. He does not expect President Trump to do anything about it besides fuss and tweet. There has been no actual negative consequence to Kerry’s actions. Nor is there any reason to think he would stop now.
Kind of what I was going to say, as much as I love Donald Trump.
Stop throwing red meat to your own supporters, President Trump, and DO SOMETHING about these traitors. Or does he NOT have the ability to instruct his attorney general to do something about this?
It’s WAY past time we fought back and started locking these people up. If it causes their side to go over the edge and start civil unrest - well, let it be. Anything else is just allowing ourselves and the force of GOOD in this country to be controlled by the threat of violence from those demented demons.
Don’t “rip” him, arrest him!
ripping the war hero Kerry....yes, good move!
But ripping him does NOTHING to stop or punish him!
How about having the DOJ take some action for a change?
I’d settle for life in prison for BJ’s wife if she testifies against the Fraud.
Then direct YOUR DOJ to do something.
Last I had heard, you were POTUS and could direct your cabinet members to action.
Why is it nobody brings up his phony claim about him serving in Cambodia ? By using CAMBODIA KID it should remind many of what that bastard did in his congressional testimony.
I just have to wonder what Kerry’s rationale for attempting to conduct foreign policy uninvited could be.
Just who the hell does he think he is?
It’s time to test the Logan Act in court and there couldn’t be a better case for testing it.
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