Following President Obama's election a conspiracy theory started appearing on the far right fringes of conservative commentary that Barack Obama wasn't born in Hawaii but, Kenya. In 2010 Donald Trump grabbed ahold of this conspiracy and started proclaiming to anyone that would listen, that he Donald Trump would prove this ridiculous idea to be true. At the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner President Obama proceeded roast him with a series of jokes about birtherism. Many point to this as the impedes for Donald Trump's campaign for president in 2016. Why is this important? Because of Donald Trump's long history of racism. Think back to his announcement in Trump tower and all the derogatory statements he made about Mexicans. Fast forward to the present and look at what he's done with his time in office. He's tried to reverse every policy ever implemented by the Obama administration. If Donald Trump could, he'd erase Barack Obama from history. For him, having been ridiculed by a black man is so offensive that their must be retribution.
Hence his determination to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal. It doesn't what the consequences maybe, what's important that Barack Obama and his legacy be destroyed.
Hence his determination to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal. It doesn't what the consequences maybe, what's important that Barack Obama and his legacy be destroyed.
The use of an Israeli private security firm to dig for dirt on senior members of the Obama administration linked to the Iran nuclear deal, as revealed in today’s Observer, shows how far President Donald Trump and the hawks around him are willing to go to destroy the agreement.
The 2015 deal is the last major element of Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy left standing, after nearly 16 months of the Trump era. The drive to unravel the agreement is both deeply personal – driven by Trump’s animus towards his predecessor – and global in its implications for international peace and security.
The bid to discredit the deal – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – with compromising information on two of its fiercest advocates from the Obama administration came to nothing. Instead, Trump’s campaign against it has relied on the simple repetition of derogatory phrases about it being the “worst deal ever” and “a major embarrassment”. It has remained a fixed point in Trump’s universe.
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