Posted on 09/15/2018 6:49:58 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Former Secretary of State John Kerry fired back at President Trump on Friday after the president slammed Kerry's continued meetings with foreign diplomats from Iran and other countries, calling them "illegal."
“There’s absolutely nothing unusual about it. The conversation I think he really ought to be worried about is Paul Manafort with Mueller,” Kerry said on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” referring to Trump's former campaign chairman who "flipped" on Friday to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller.
“It really is giant, and soon you’ll be hearing him say that is the worst that’s ever been made. When you think about it, it’s really gone from the Art of the Deal to the art of the squeal,” he added.
Manafort agreed to a plea deal with Mueller's team Friday on two federal charges. The deal involves full cooperation with Mueller in his probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the 2016 election as well as looking at potential obstruction of justice.
Manafort was among the Trump campaign officials who attended the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-linked lawyer who had promised dirt on Hilary Clinton.
Kerry's comments Friday are the latest in a feud between the pair this week over Kerry’s maintained contacts with foreign dignitaries after he left the State Department when Trump took office in early 2017.
“John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people. He told them to wait out the Trump Administration! Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? BAD!” Trump tweeted on Thursday.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also called the meetings “unseemly and unprecedented” on Friday.
Kerry played a central role during the Obama administration in crafting the nuclear deal Iran signed with the U.S. and five other world powers in 2015, a deal Trump pulled the U.S. out of in May.
The former secretary of State has denied any wrongdoing regarding the meetings with Iran and other countries.
“We have conversations with people about the state of affairs in the world in order to understand them. We don’t negotiate, we’re not involved in interfering with policy,” Kerry said on Fox News earlier this week.
“It’s not Iran deal-specific, it’s with respect to trade, it’s with respect to NATO,” he added.
Why does Kerry believe has that right to represent the United States on any issue now that he's out of government?
Kerry is now certifiable.
Pull his passport !
Pretentious morons - 10 times as annoying regular morons with twice the stupid.
Step 1: Pull his clearance.
John F'n Kerry has let the cat out of the bag. The entire Meuller investigation is about distracting the President and the American people.
The whole country should be worried when Cary is supplying classified information to the enemy.
Lurch, you imbecile! You are trying to influence American foreign policy, or cover something up, by meeting with Iranian officials. I doubt these are your yachting buddies or pals you meet on the links!
Kerry just admitted it’s not unusual for him to propose deals with our enemies. He should be spending his twilight years at GITMO along with half the demonrat party.
Hey, Kerry, still employing those “little brown children”?
Just business as usual for Kerry. He met with the North Vietnamese during the war.
John Kerry is a traitor.
He should be hanged next to his ex-boss.
Unlike Benedict Arnold who actually WAS a war hero, this jerk has always been a traitor.
Boy, does Lurch think he’s a clever and witty fellow!! He’s just patting himself on the back, so proud of his own brilliance.
He seems to forget that he is a pathetically FAILED presidential candidate. And when he recently said he wasn’t ruling out running in 2020, the massive roar of ridicule was so loud, he changed his mind in 24 hours.
What a coward. What a buffoon.
Kerry and the rest of the Dem nuts think Trump always talks about screwing the voter like them ,D’oh
Moron is too kind.
By constantly running his mouth, he keeps before the public the fact that he is guilty of the very crime for which Manafort has been convicted.....acting as an agent of a foreign power and not registered as such.
“LOCK HIM UP, LOCK HIM UP”. (Kerry, that is)
Kerry has always acted like a smug, entitled bastard. Shame those guys never seem to “get theirs”.
Pretentious morons - 10 times as annoying regular morons with twice the stupid.
And three times the smugness!
file charges and throw this pompous turd in the slammer. once a treasonous a-hole, always a treasonous a-hole.
Of course, John Kerry is a low-intellect, pompous pretentious blow-hard who was born into a rich and influential family, so just like Teddy Kennedy, he was born on third base and still thinks he got there because he hit a triple. What a maroon!!
holeecrap this piece of crap needs a beating...
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