Jamie Raskin says Donald Trump blew up the Obama-negotiated JCPOA nuclear agreement with Iran, then used that as the pretext for war. He says that's "not a coincidence in terms of the business partners of Jared Kushner," calls Kushner one of the principal actors in ending the deal, and says Kushner worked with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Israel to influence Trump, "circumnavigating the war power of Congress." Raskin says the war has cost taxpayers 50 or 60 billion dollars.
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- Who
- Jamie Raskin
- Where
- interview, university event
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- 57 seconds, unedited within the cut
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We had President Obama negotiated a nuclear agreement with Iran, which Donald Trump blew up, the JCPOA. That was going to last another, more than a decade, of no enriched uranium by the Iranians. Everybody agreed it was working, but they were saying, 10 years or 12 years is too short, so therefore let's destroy it and have nothing. Then they used that as the pretext to go to war. Well, that's not a coincidence in terms of the business partners of Jared Kushner, who was one of the principal actors blowing up the JCPOA and then working with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Israel in terms of influencing the very gullible and impressionable Donald Trump to go to war, circumnavigating the war power of Congress. That war is now cost us 50 or 60 billion dollars. That's our money.
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