President Donald Trump called out former President Barack Obama in a late-night social media post on Sunday (May 10), regarding Obama’s handling of Iran.
“Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!), and then finally hit “pay dirt” when Barack Hussein Obama became President,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Obama had previously negotiated the Iran Nuclear Deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), alongside the UK, France, China, Russia, Germany, and the European Union.
The deal was finalized in July 2015 and implemented in January 2016, according to The National Archives, and aimed to limit Iran's nuclear program by lifting nuclear-related sanctions in exchange for Iran using said nuclear program exclusively for civilian use.
Trump also claimed that Obama gave Tehran billions of dollars in green cash, flown into Tehran “on a silver platter,” referring to the $400 million in cash secretly shipped to Iran under the deal in 2016.
According to PBS, the money was owed to Iran previously as part of a failed arms deal established before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The payment coincided with the release of four Americans imprisoned in Tehran.
Obama claimed in a press conference that the funds had been announced months prior, and that Iran had expressed intent to bring a lawsuit to have the funds returned after they had been frozen by international sanctions.
“They had never seen money like this, and never will again. It was taken off the plane in suitcases and satchels, and the Iranians couldn’t believe their luck,” Trump wrote. “They finally found the greatest SUCKER of them all, in the form of a weak and stupid American President. He was a disaster as our ‘Leader,’ but not as bad as Sleepy Joe Biden!”
Trump took aim at Obama earlier this month, sharing an AI-generated meme on Truth Social on May 5 showing Obama bowing to Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz al Saud under the caption “Traitors Bow.”
He also accused both Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of treason in April after sharing a Fox News report alleging they coordinated a smear campaign against him by claiming collusion with Russian intelligence in the 2016 election.
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