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On Wednesday at a press conference during the G7 summit in France, President Donald Trump\u2019s hypocrisy was laid bare when Fox News reporter Peter Doocy quoted Trump’s own previous statement regarding Iran, resulting in an embarrassing exchange. <\/p>\n

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\u201cA wise man once said in January of 2020,\u201d said Doocy, \u201cIran never won a war but never lost a negotiation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWho said that?\u201d asked the president.<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump,\u201d Doocy revealed. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s what I thought you were going to say,\u201d said Trump. <\/p>\n

Doocy continued: \u201cSo how do you go back to the United States and convince a skeptical American public that this deal is a win here?\u201d<\/p>\n

From there, Trump launched into a solid two-minute-long rant that briefly touched on Iran before abruptly shifting to his war with the media.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey lost militarily? Okay,\u201d he began before stammering through a muddled assertion that, even if Iran said, \u201c\u2018Praise be to Allah, Donald Trump is the greatest president ever. We totally concede. We totally give up. This war is over. We have failed,\u2019 the New York Times and CNN \u2014 and a couple of others are not all that dishonest \u2014 they’d say Iran had a great victory. Okay? They practically do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

From there Trump diverged from discussion of Iran to focus on attacking the press, saying, \u201cWe need a fair press. That’s why they’re all doing so badly, because they lost credibility. When I win in a landslide and I had 93 percent bad press \u2014 they take good stories about me and make them bad. The media has so little credibility that the people voted for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before turning Trump\u2019s words back at him, Doocy had begun their exchange with questions about the $300 billion payment that is rumored to be part of the peace deal.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOnly if they’re doing things right,\u201d Trump had responded, repeating the phrase three more times. The president went on to justify the fund by pointing out how much destruction the U.S. had caused in Iran, before shifting tone and saying, \u201cSo, uh, they have to behave themselves. If they’re not behaving, they get hit again. You know, they’ll be hit again because we can do it very easily.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to say how much he appreciates that Russian President Vladimir Putin has remained \u201ctotally neutral\u201d in the war, even though his own officials<\/u> have previously asserted that Russia helped Iran target U.S. forces.<\/p>\n

Doocy then asked about reports that the U.S. would allow Iran to access its frozen assets. <\/p>\n

\u201cWell, the unfreezing, it’s an easy one to answer,\u201d explained Trump. \u201cWe have taken a lot of their money\u2026 It’s not our money. It’s their money. And we froze it at a certain point in time. I guess we’re going to have to give it back.\u201d<\/p>\n

While on the campaign trail in 2015, he frequently claimed that former President Obama had \u201csent Boeing 757s over there, loaded with cash\u201d to bribe Iran into joining the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) \u2014 the \u201cnuclear deal\u201d Trump ended upon entering office. In fact, the Obama administration had allowed Iran to retrieve $1.7 billion in unfrozen assets. The Trump deal provides Iran nearly 200 times that amount.<\/p>\n

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