Donald Trump stopped himself in the middle of a strong criticism of former President Barack Obama — just as he seemed ready to say something really harsh.
During an interview on Fox & Friends on Monday, Trump talked about how past presidents handled Iran, and he mostly focused his anger on Obama.
“Look, for 47 years, they’ve been secretly helping Iran — every president did it, and nothing was done about it,” Trump said.
“They became more and more powerful.This should have been stopped 47 years ago, but Clinton let it continue, and Bush let it continue.Everyone let it continue.And Obama was the worst of all, because Obama actually went to their side.”
But right when he accused Obama of siding with Iran over its nuclear deal, Trump stopped himself from saying something even worse.
“You know he’s a… well… let’s not say,” Trump said.
“Let’s leave that for another time.He was terrible.”
Even though he stopped himself from saying that particular thing, Trump had a lot more to say about how Obama handled Iran.
“He gave them $1.7 billion in cash, in bags, on an airplane, and brought it to Iran,” Trump said.
“$1.7 billion.Do you know what that is?Have you ever seen a million dollars in cash?This is 1.7 billion.It took up an entire Boeing 757, and they flew it to Tehran, and they gave it to people waiting at the airport.Can you imagine these people?They never saw money, and now all of a sudden they’ve got 1.7 billion in cash.And he gave them hundreds of billions of dollars in cash and everything else, and he went to their side.They became much more powerful because of Obama.And Biden, who was the vice president.But he probably had nothing to say because he was such a stupid person.”
The Trump administration recently signed a memorandum of understanding that called for setting up a $300 billion fund for Iran — though the money would come from outside investors.
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