One of President Donald Trump’s own supporters made it clear just how furious she was with his deal with Iran.
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Speaking to CNN, Batya Ungar-Sargon of “Batya” on NewsNation said that it gave her no pleasure to trash the president.
” You wrote the greatest superpower to ever exist, brought to its knees by a few minds, just a disaster for America,” said co-host John Berman.
Ungar-Sargon noted that the “disaster” Iran deal only guarantees free passage to ships through the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days. After that, Iran can begin charging tolls. It will likely increase the price of oil starting in mid-August.
“If they could plant a few mines in that strait, they could bring the greatest superpower to ever exist in human history to its knees,” she said. “And that is just such a disaster. I mean, what message do you think that signals to China right now? It’s really, really horrifying. And I’m very surprised that this administration would go down this road. “
On Truth Social, Trump has called any critics of the deal are “jealous,” “bad people” or “stupid.”
Berman asked her what would have happened had a Democrat signed the deal that Trump did.
“I mean, you know the answer to that, right? There’s no Republican who, if a Democrat had signed this exact document, they would blast them to kingdom come. We all know this,” said Ungar-Sargon.
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She went on to slam Trump for his comments during the press conference on Wednesday, in which he “repeatedly said things that were the exact opposite of the things that he had promised.”
She conceded, “I am a big fan of this president. I think he has done amazing, amazing things in the first year of his second term, which is why I’m so surprised by this.”
Berman keyed in on her comment, “Again, just to reiterate what you said, you are a Trump supporter by your own words there. You were a fan of this president.”
“So when we first went into this, the president laid out three main goals. He said he wanted to get rid of their navy. He wanted to get rid of their ballistic capabilities, and he wanted to get rid of their ability to achieve a nuclear weapon,” said Ungar-Sargon. “Um, I don’t see any of that in this [memorandum of understanding]. Of course, they promised not to pursue a nuclear weapon. Guess what? They promised that to President Obama as well.”
She falsely claimed that Iran then “lied and cheated.” In fact, the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) showed that Iran was in compliance as late as of March 2018, a timeline on its website showed. In May 2018, Trump withdrew the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which required the weapons inspectors to test for enriched uranium, Bloomberg News reported at the time.
Ungar-Sargon called Trump’s attacks on those who disagree with the deal “very insulting.”
“They have never been as weak as they were last Friday, right before the president agreed to this exact deal. And I just do not understand why we’re letting up the pressure in 60 days when they have all their money back, they’re going to be much stronger and much less likely to agree to anything that would make this not just better than the JCPOA, but just as good as the JCPOA,” she added.
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