Donald Trump is trapped in one quagmire of a war in Iranand his usual ploy of inventing his own reality and selling it to those around him doesn’t work.
Trump has created an economic crisis on top of an international crisis, on top of a country on the brink of collapse.
In an apparent attempt to calm the stock market, Trump claims almost daily that the war he started with Iran has been won or will soon be won.
As financial markets plunged, Trump claimed peace negotiations were underway with Iran, but at the time there was no evidence that negotiations were taking place with the Iranians in power.
On Sunday, the House Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Jim Himes, said there are no negotiations.
Himes continued with his answer about ICE funding on CBS’s Face The Nation:
This is not ideological purity. This is basic compliance with the law. Yeah, well, okay, so we all agree, let’s pass the law that codifies it.
Because you know what, we don’t trust the president when he says, okay, no masks, any more than we trust him when he says, oh, well, now I’m negotiating with the Iranians when he’s not, right?
So if this is so easy, great, let’s put it into law. But they’re not, you know, they’re not willing to do that. Now, where Maria is right, and this is important, we have become too accustomed to using shutdowns as a mechanism to get what we want legislatively. And what that means is that people like TSA agents or people who work in the federal government for the Department of Agriculture, or don’t get paid if one party throws a tantrum, right?
In this case, I happen to believe that the American people – you know, stand with the Democratic Party and say that you can’t pretend that ICE acted in Minneapolis, but that we should refrain from making laws through shutdowns that are inconsistent with the great country that we are.
Himes just casually said that Trump lied about the Iran negotiations, but he went into more detail and explained later in the interview why Trump is lying.
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