Posted on 09/15/2018 6:49:58 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former Secretary of State John Kerry fired back at President Trump on Friday after the president slammed Kerry's continued meetings with foreign diplomats from Iran and other countries, calling them "illegal."
“There’s absolutely nothing unusual about it. The conversation I think he really ought to be worried about is Paul Manafort with Mueller,” Kerry said on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” referring to Trump's former campaign chairman who "flipped" on Friday to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller.
“It really is giant, and soon you’ll be hearing him say that is the worst that’s ever been made. When you think about it, it’s really gone from the Art of the Deal to the art of the squeal,” he added.
Manafort agreed to a plea deal with Mueller's team Friday on two federal charges. The deal involves full cooperation with Mueller in his probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the 2016 election as well as looking at potential obstruction of justice.
Manafort was among the Trump campaign officials who attended the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-linked lawyer who had promised dirt on Hilary Clinton.
Kerry's comments Friday are the latest in a feud between the pair this week over Kerry’s maintained contacts with foreign dignitaries after he left the State Department when Trump took office in early 2017.
“John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people. He told them to wait out the Trump Administration! Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? BAD!” Trump tweeted on Thursday.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also called the meetings “unseemly and unprecedented” on Friday.
Kerry played a central role during the Obama administration in crafting the nuclear deal Iran signed with the U.S. and five other world powers in 2015, a deal Trump pulled the U.S. out of in May.
The former secretary of State has denied any wrongdoing regarding the meetings with Iran and other countries.
“We have conversations with people about the state of affairs in the world in order to understand them. We don’t negotiate, we’re not involved in interfering with policy,” Kerry said on Fox News earlier this week.
“It’s not Iran deal-specific, it’s with respect to trade, it’s with respect to NATO,” he added.
SHRED the traitor ‘ s passport. Exile the horse - like schlub.
Look he’s parroting the falsehood about Manafort’s deal.
Did someone ring for “Lurch” ?
The LAW worries about you talking illegally to other countries, you stupid schmuck.
How is his yacht in Rhode Island where the taxes are less?
Kerry is the epitome of the smug elitist scumbag liberal hypocrite.
We need to put some teeth in the Logan Act and put Kerry away for a while.
The left is convinced they can do as they please, and so far they have been right. We have to start locking them up.
Spoken like a true traitor.
Kerry’s security clearance needs to be immediately revoked.
SEPT 2016-— officials from the State, Justice and Treasury departments said Obama’s $1.3 billion to Iran was paid in cash on Jan. 22 and Feb. 5.
The money came from a little-known fund administered by the Treasury Department for settling litigation claims. The so-called Judgment Fund is taxpayer money Congress has permanently approved in the event it’s needed, allowing the president to bypass direct congressional approval to make a settlement.
The U.S. previously paid out $278 million in Iran-related claims by using the fund in 1991. Republicans have decried the payments as ransom, a charge that Obama administration has rejected.....a group of Republican senators announced their support for legislation that would bar payments from the Judgment Fund to Iran until Tehran pays the nearly $55.6 billion that U.S. courts have judged that it owes to American victims of Iranian terrorism.
UPDATE H.J.Ansari Zarif, the deputy for parliamentary and Iranian affairs within Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said he would expose “everyone who allegedly accepted bribes” to facilitate Obama’s nuke deal with Iran. “... we will reveal which western politicians received monies during nuclear negotiations to make #IranDeal happen,” Mr. Zarif reportedly said.
NOTE: Mr Zarif is the FIL of John Kerry’ daughter.
CONCLUSION Looks like Obama and his crowd got filthy rich on this deal. In case you wondered how the Halfrican intended to pay for his billion dollar final resting place dedicated to the Sun God….”Obama’s “presidential center.” NOTE: Obama said no federal funds will be used......just tax dollars with an Iranian postmark.
Pull his passport !
**********
Pull his security clearance, immediately!
I hope he runs again so the Swiftees can sink him again.
“We have conversations with people about the state of affairs in the world in order to understand them. We don’t negotiate, we’re not involved in interfering with policy,” Kerry said on Fox News earlier this week. “It’s not Iran deal-specific, it’s with respect to trade, it’s with respect to NATO,
So he is discussing NATO with Iran and reportedly advised them to wait out the Trump administration, and it has nothing to do with negotiations or interfering with policy or the deal with the former administration (which he served under) who had arranged to give them many billions of dollars that they probably will never get the rest of while Trump is in office?
Is there no point of sheer implausibility in the self serving narratives of Leftists that demands hard investigation into what is actually true on the part of "journalists"?
My opinion of Vietnam John can’t be expressed in mixed company.
As bad as Mueller is, he is not working on actual nuclear weapons. The Iranians are.
If only we had a DOJ.
Oh wait, er, ah, hmmm...
Arrogant pos. Will someone with gonads prosecute this moron? Sheesh.
His arrogance knows no bounds. One of many reasons he never occupied the Oval Office.
I hope this smug condescending douche runs again for President so Trump can hand him his ass again.
One of these things is a crime. The other is not.
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