Trump haters live in world of make-believe
To the editor:
Trump haters live in world of make-believe. Take the latest installment in your Dec 10th letters column. The writer states the Iran deal was “…passed and subsequently signed by the U.S. Congress.” Not by a long shot. The “deal” was never a treaty and, therefore, never binding on our country. Treaties require Senate confirmation, which was never sought by the Obama administration. Not only was it not “…signed by the U.S. Congress…,” it wasn’t signed, period. As President Obama’s Department of State described in a letter to then U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo November 19, 2015: “the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is not a treaty or an executive agreement, and is not a signed document.” This was Obama’s way of aiding Iran at the expense of our national security by circumventing the treaty clause. It was never more than nonbinding Obama administration political policy subject to cancellation by the next administration but it was falsely promoted to other nations and unconstitutionally implemented as a treaty.
President Obama lifted U.S. sanctions on Iran in probable violation of several U.S. laws that conditionally delegate that authority to the President. He arranged for payment of some $1.7 billion to Iran, without required Congressional appropriation, on pretense of meeting a commitment made in the 1970s. Per Bill Gertz, the money went to Hezbollah and other terror organizations. The “deal” was against our national security as I detailed in a viewpoint published in this paper September 15, 2015. By all appearances, Obama acted on the behalf of Iran, our mortal enemy, against the United States. If true, that is treason under federal law.
President Trump was right to cancel the “deal” but the real damage was irreversible: the money paid.
Ross Wilkinson
Wilton