{"id":273510,"date":"2018-05-09T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=273510"},"modified":"2018-05-10T16:36:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:36:20","slug":"review-obamas-disastrous-iran-deal-trump-just-saved-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/09\/review-obamas-disastrous-iran-deal-trump-just-saved-us\/","title":{"rendered":"A Review of Obama\u2019s Disastrous Iran Deal That Trump Just Saved Us From"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I have spent considerable time detailing and explaining how the Obama administration spied on domestic opponents of the Iran deal and that that was the forerunner of the attempt to spy on Trump transition and campaign people, and how the Obama administration used a new alliance between intelligence community people and media to advance the mythology and lies about the Iran deal.<\/p>\n

And when they saw how easy it was to compromise the media in pushing the phony Iran deal narrative of the Obama administration, that essentially became the trial run for what we are going through now with the intelligence community having an alliance with the media to leak a bunch of absolute drivel about Trump for a year and a half and two years to try to shape public opinion. I\u2019m gonna go back and I\u2019m gonna review all of that.<\/p>\n

When it comes to the Iran deal, I\u2019m gonna go back and review a whole bunch of things from the past that we touched on when they came out that everybody has forgotten, that detail just how rotten this deal was to begin with. They also detail how the Obama administration virtually lied to the American people about it, and did so with the assistance of the media and the new alliance between the media and the Obama intelligence apparatus.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a fascinating story, and it\u2019s gonna just nuke to smithereens all of these people that are in a conniption fit over this. And if you look at these people, it does raise a question. I don\u2019t care where you go. John Kerry, Hillary Clinton — who I think needs to be given a breathalyzer test after 9 o\u2019clock every night if she\u2019s gonna start tweeting things. But wherever you go, Obama, John Kerry, Hillary — everybody in the Obama administration — is reacting to this Iran deal like they have lost something huge.<\/p>\n

It gives the impression that there\u2019s more involved here than just an Obama policy being reversed. It\u2019s almost like there\u2019s something that was personal at stake here that has been taken away from them. And, I mean, it\u2019s more so than usual. They\u2019re more upset… You know, they were mad at the attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare, for example, and they had their little things to say about that. But this is engendering a completely different reaction from them.<\/p>\n

But I can\u2019t wait to get to the history of this with all of the stories we had about how bad this is and how bad the Obama administration was lying to people about the Iran deal. It is one of these things that I\u2019m thinking about starting with, when I guess I essentially have. The thing to remember… I want to read you a statement Ben Sasse, U.S. Senator Ben Sasse. He\u2019s from Nebraska. He issued a statement following the president\u2019s announcement yesterday getting out of the Iran deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iran deal has always been terrible. Today is a reminder that if you live by the presidency, you die by the presidency. We ought to be clear about this: Donald Trump isn\u2019t ripping up a treaty; he\u2019s walking away from Barack Obama\u2019s personal pledge. Two-and-a-half years ago, President Obama made a bad deal with Iran without support from Congress, and today President Trump is pulling out of President Obama\u2019s personal commitment, and he doesn\u2019t need Congress\u2019s support to do” it because Congress had nothing to do with authorizing this.<\/p>\n

Obama did this personally. Obama never had the votes in the U.S. Congress to get this ratified as a treaty. So Obama did it by virtue, by way of executive action. And that\u2019s the only reason Trump is able to rip it up the way he has<\/a>. If this had been sanctioned and authorized as a treaty by the United States Senate, Trump could not have done what he did yesterday. The key to remember is that Obama never had the support even of prominent people in his own party.<\/p>\n

\"\"Chuck Schumer, Steve Israel, a number of liberal Democrats in the House as well as in the Senate were never supportive of this Iran deal. It would have never passed the treaty vote in the Senate. So that\u2019s why Sasse is saying this is nothing more than a personal promise from Obama. But presidents cannot commit the United States to treaty-like positions simply because they do so with their personal word. It\u2019s another instance where Obama didn\u2019t have the votes of the elected representatives of the people to enact what he wanted to enact, so he did it by virtue of executive action and executive order.<\/p>\n

And because he did it that way, Trump — like so many other Obama things, which were enacted over the heads of the elected representatives of the people. Trump can simply erase them with a subsequent executive action or executive order. I\u2019m telling you, if this had been a treaty and the Senate had ratified it, Trump could not have done what he did yesterday. He would have had to go back to the Senate, had to reverse the process all over. It would have been practically impossible to do because of the number of votes required even to ratify a treaty.<\/p>\n

But as such, he didn\u2019t need the support of Congress; he didn\u2019t need the support of the Senate. Ben Sasse says, \u201cAmerican foreign policy makes lasting progress when it is led by the President, approved by Congress, and presented honestly to the American people.\u201d This was not presented honestly to the American people. The Obama administration lied about the details of this deal, and one of the architects of the deal, Ben Rhodes, ran around and bragged about how easy it was to lie both to the American people and American journalists.<\/p>\n

Ben Rhodes from Obama\u2019s national security apparatus made the comment that your average journalist today is 27. They don\u2019t know anything; they believe everything we tell \u2019em. It was a snap. It was right out of the page of Jonathan Gruber, who was the architect of Obamacare, who after it was signed into law, ran around the country bragging about how easy it was to lie to the American people about it because the American people are essentially ignoramuses. So Obamacare, the Iran deal…<\/p>\n