Trump caused the current Iran crisis when he withdrew withdrawal from a multi-nation agreement – with China, France, Germany, Russia, the UKand the EU — that froze Iran’s nuclear program. More frightening, his decision was triggered by nothing to do with Iran. It was triggered by his hatred of President Obama for mocking him at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ dinner which led Trump on a mission to undue everything Obama accomplished, including Iran’s agreement to halt it’s nuclear progress.
Before abandoning the Iran nuclear pact, it was many years away from developing enough fuel to build a bomb: now it’s only months away. And Trump has handed Iran a nuclear threat that’s given it the leverage to incite and support terrorists in the Middle East, including Hamas, whose brutal attack of Israel triggered the Israeli Hamas war.
Now Trump’s floating the idea of nuking Iran — a country of 90 million – to, albeit it belatedly, stop Iran from building nuclear weapons. Don’t default to an oh-that will-never-happen mantra. It took General Mark Milley to prevent Trump from misusing America’s nuclear arsenal in the last month of his first presidency. There’s no Milley now to stop Trump from nuking Iran, only a classified-info-leaking, alcoholic, Fox News co-host and a band of surrounding sycophants. Acting out of random anger is part of a pattern of some unrelated event unleashing Trump’s catastrophic decisions. There’s no telling what will enrage him enough to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.
He sprung his 2017 tariffs on our allies out of outrage over Hope Hicks’ testimony regarding Russia’s election interference and the refusal of his Chief of staff to give his son-in-law security clearance.
After becoming frustrated with his staff’s inability to reach a consensus on pardoning January 6 attackers, he threw up his hands and said, “”F–k it, Release ’em all,” and freed dozens of prisoners with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes of rape, sexual abuse of a minor, manslaughter, child pornography and drug trafficking.
AsTrump draws the United States perilously close to war with Iran, some members of Congress are working across the aisle in an attempt to rein him in. Sadly, Republicans don’t a good record of reining Trump in. And MAGA voters don’t seem to appreciate the dangers he poses for them, or are ignorant of them, or believe Trump’s 30,573 lies.
