Scott Horton

When Trump came into power in 2017...

he decided on this Israeli-influenced maximum pressure campaign.

And he said the JCPOA was the worst deal in the history of any time any two men ever shook hands and all these kinds of things in his hyperbolic way, which, of course, made it very difficult for him to figure out a way to stay in the thing or to compromise along its lines.

But the fact of the matter is, if he had just played it straight and said, listen, Ayatollah,

We don't have to be friends, but we do have a deal here, which my predecessor struck with you.

But I don't like these sunset provisions.

And I want to send my guys over there and see if we can figure out a way to convince you that we really wish you'd shut down calm altogether or this or that or the other thing and try to approach them in good faith.

We talk about yard lines and things.

We had a JCPOA.

OK, so toward peace, we were past the 50 yard line.

Donald Trump could have gone to Tehran and shook hands with the Ayatollah as Dick Cheney complained that we had cold relations with Iran back in 1998 when he was the head of Halliburton.

And so we can do business with these guys.

Donald Trump could have gone right over there and done business.

And instead, he gave in to Netanyahu's lies.

in this ridiculous hoax that they had uncovered all these Iranian nuclear documents, which he pretends is legit, where all they did was recycle the fake Israeli forged smoking laptop of 2005, which they lied and pretended was the laptop of an Iranian scientist that was smuggled out of Iran by his wife and had all this proof of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program on it.

But every bit of that was refuted, including the thing about the warhead, he said, was refuted by David Albright and his friend David Sanger in the New York Times.

That all those sketches of the warhead for the missile were wrong because when Mossad forged the documents, they were making a good educated guess.

But they didn't know that Iran had completely redesigned the nose cone of their mid-range missiles and had an entirely different nose cone that would require an entirely different warhead than that described in the documents.

And why would they have been designing a warhead to fit in a nose cone that they were abandoning?

And so that was refuted.