Trump calls for impeachment of Senate Democrat who called ending Obama’s Iran deal ‘bad mistake’ – Yahoo News Canada
President Trump on Sunday called for the impeachment of Democratic Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), after the lawmaker criticized his decision to pull out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in his first term.
“Senator Jack Reed, a Dumocrat from R.I., lied when stating the the Deal we just made is not as good as the Obama disaster known as the JCPOA. Reed is either an outright fraud, or incompetent,” Trump wrote in a Sunday post on Truth Social.
“The Obuma Deal was a road to a Nuclear weapon for Iran, cash and all, one of the worst and dumbest (hence Dumocrats!) Deals ever made by the U.S. Our Deal is a WALL against Iran ever having a Nuclear weapon, the complete opposite of Obuma. Impeach Jack Reed!” he added.
A sitting senator cannot be impeached but can be expelled through a resolution that requires a two-thirds majority vote.
The president’s comments came hours after Reed made an appearance on Fox News’s “Fox News Sunday,” where he described the new deal as a “birthday gift” for Trump that fails to ensure more safety from the Iranian regime and also does not secure long-term non-proliferation objectives.
“First of all, we’re in a much worse position than we were under the JCPOA. The breakout time, that is, the time it would take to assemble enough enriched uranium to develop a weapon, was 12 months during the JCPOA. Today it’s a week,” Reed said of Iran’s nuclear weapons program to show host Shannon Bream.
“We are negotiating against a country which its leadership has been eliminated. Now we have even more fanatical leadership who has much more invested and much more to leverage their position. … Abandoning the JCPOA was a bad mistake by the president. Now we can try to get back, but it’s going to be a difficult process to get back to that position,” he added.
Trump and Vice President Vance signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran on Sunday that will spur a 60-day period of negotiations to build the conditions of a longer agreement.
Details of the deal were not immediately disclosed but are set to be released within 48 hours in addition to a full text of the agreement that’s scheduled to be published Friday.
However, lawmakers and former President Obama have raised concerns with the deal, noting that it will likely mirror terms set through the JCPOA.
“The president does not like to be questioned in any way, shape or form, which is bad for an executive,” Reed told reporters Monday in response to Trump’s post online, according to local news outlet WPRI.
“Executives — the good ones — listen to criticism and then rationally dispose of or concur with it. That was just a tirade by someone who was upset.”
He added, “And I think he was upset because there was a lot of truth in my statement. We don’t have a deal yet — we have a deal to make a deal.”
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