CNN's Erin Burnett was in disbelief on Monday after a new report threw President Donald Trump's previous attacks against former President Barack Obama's Iran deal back in his face.
Andrew Kaczynski of CNN's KFile reviewed dozens of media appearances by Trump and other members of his cabinet in which they discussed Obama's Iran deal. Trump was sharply critical of the deal in many instances, as were Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, even though the deal that the Trump administration brokered with the Iranian regime resembles that deal in many respects.
"For the better part of a decade, Trump's criticism of former President Obama's Iran deal has settled on this simple argument that giving Iran access to money made the regime stronger while giving away American leverage," Kaczynski reported. He then played multiple clips where Trump criticized Obama for unfreezing $150 billion in sanctioned Iranian assets.
Last weekend, the Trump administration agreed to a deal with the Iranians that would allow the country to resume oil sales, which could net it far more than $150 billion in new revenue. The deal also included putting together a more than $300 billion reconstruction package for the country after the war ends. Some experts have pointed out that Iran could use some of the funds to continue funding terrorism, which was one of Trump's stated aims of starting the war back in February.
Kaczynski played clips where Trump said he would never agree to such terms if he were in the same position as Obama.
"It is really incredible when you look at some of these things that you found," Burnett said. "You could be talking about this very deal."
