n 2015, the United States settled a 36-year-old debt by repaying the Islamic Republic of Iran $400 million plus $1.3 billion in interest — $1.7 billion in total — for military equipment the previous Iranian government purchased but never received in the late 1970s.Don't you get it yet Ray ? Trump domestically and internationally is the worst President EVER and it's not closeWhat in the hell do you want HIM to do about it?
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Americans are scared, they want their leaders to be honest with them. They want to be safe. They want a leader who shows compassion. They want a leader who puts the nation above his personal interests.
What you described is what snowflakes need, not Americans. We Americans don't need some fuzzy warm old man to wipe our tears away or give us a hug.
Yes, some Americans are scared. They are scared of what violent leftists may to do them. They fear their towns being torn apart, their landscape and statues disfigured, their homes being attacked or being attacked in their own cars. They fear anarchists taking over blocks of their downtown where they work. That's what real Americans are scared of. It would be the stupidest thing in the world to elect their choice of leader as the President of the United States. This is what leftists have forced some of us to do.
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This virus has gotten completely out of hand and he plays golf ?? Russia our enemy into G7 when all other members say NO?? Have you heard him say one word condemning Putin the murdering scum? but believes him ahead of our people??
Oh please, talking about murdering people. When Trump referred to this as the Wuhan Virus, you people flipped out. How dare he criticize the country you respect so much. How dare Trump place the blame on the origins of this virus.
How many people has China murdered? How many are being murdered today? Last count I seen was over a half-million dead around the world thanks to them and their stupid bat eating people. Then there's Iran, the world sponsor of terrorism who sent their goons into Iraq to kill hundreds of our American solders. What did DumBama do? He sent them billions of dollars in cash on pallets.
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This settlement, which avoided the possibility of a far larger judgment being made against the US in the Iran-US Claims Tribunal established after the 1979 hostage crisis, quickly became fodder for conspiracy-mongering and invective from Republicans — including then-candidate Donald Trump — who suggested that the Obama administration was turning a blind eye to the killing of American soldiers. This conspiracy-mongering was mainly based on prior reports accusing Iran of paying Taliban fighters $1,000 bounties for each US soldier they kill in Afghanistan.
Five years later, another US adversary — Vladimir Putin’s Russia — is paying Taliban-linked militants cold, hard cash to kill American troops. It’s a pretty shocking revelation. But, confusingly enough, many of the same Republicans who expressed outrage over repaying an old debt to Iran appear angrier at the fact that Americans now know their soldiers are being targeted than they are at the idea that Russia would pay to kill Americans in the first place.
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Since the news hit that US intelligence agencies had learned of Russia’s payment of bounties to Taliban-linked militants in return for killing American soldiers — and briefed President Trump on those findings — the response from the White House has followed a pattern that should be familiar to anyone familiar with the first three years of the Trump presidency.
The President’s first public remarks on the matter came (where else) via a post to his Twitter account on Saturday, shortly before he climbed into a Secret Service SUV to be transported to his Virginia golf club.
In it, Trump claimed that “nobody briefed or told” him, Vice President Mike Pence, or White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows “about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an ‘anonymous source’ by the fake news [New York Times],” Trump wrote, before adding a false claim that “there have not been many attacks” on US forces in Afghanistan (24 US servicemen died there last year.) He went on to call the story “another phony Times hit job, just like their failed Russia Hoax”.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany also weighed in on the matter that day with a statement claiming neither Trump nor Pence were briefed on what she called the "alleged Russian bounty intelligence". And when she addressed reporters on Monday, McEnany repeatedly claimed that Trump had not been briefed because the intelligence regarding Russia’s alleged payment of bounties had not been “verified”, before storming away from the lectern after attacking the Times for publishing the information in the first plac