Well, it didn't start too badly. Kristin Welker pretended she was a journalist and Donald Trump pretended he was a serious president and a few questions of moderate interest and
importance got answered.
But when they got to the subjects of how well the war was going and how close the U.S. is to a deal with Iran, Trump demonstrated no connection with reality and Welker was useless on injecting any.
Trump claimed that Iran only has about 22 percent of its missile capability left. The reality is that's about what the U.S. destroyed, meaning Iran
has about 78% of its missile capability left.
Trump also claimed his negotiating team is very close to an agreement with the Iranians, adding that they've agreed not to build a nuclear weapon.
The reality is there has been absolutely no progress on a deal with Iran since the war started. Not building a nuclear weapon was never a point of contention. Iran has
agreed to that for over 20 years and every published U.S. intelligence report backs that up.
U.S. demands were that Iran stop enriching uranium completely - not just promise not to build a weapon. Note that enriching uranium for energy or other peaceful purposes is named as an inalienable right of non-nuclear (without nuclear weapons) countries in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to which both Iran and the
United States are signatories.
Iran has never agreed to stop enriching uranium. They have never agreed to diminish their missile capabilities. They have never agreed to stop supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, or the Houthis.
And why should they? They've won the war. They won it the minute they closed the Strait of Hormuz. Like our own Revolutionary War, the treaty
didn't come until years after the last major battle. But this one is over folks. It's only left for Trump to admit it before he causes a decade-long depression.
I get into this and much more on today's episode of Tom Mullen Talks Freedom.
