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.
I want to see this guy fall over his extra long face.
Pretentious morons: 10 times as annoying regular morons with twice the stupid. (reference John Kerry)
Manafort cannot hurt Donald J Trump. He can, however, provide Mr Trump with material he can use to keep the Left barking up imaginary trees.
I hope one of those indictments in Huber’s drawer is for Kerry.
Half? Why give the rest of the DNC Organized Crime Syndicate a pass? If Gitmo is too small we could annex and fence the rest of the island to serve the overload.
John Kerry, the smartest man in the room...just ask him, he’ll tell you.
Far too many of them. It’d tip the island.
And they would all slide off into the Caribbean Sea and trouble the civilized world no more.
Everyone in the MSM is all worked up that Manafort is now going to cooperate with Mueller to bury Trump. They forget Manafort had an ongoing business relationship with the Podesta boys about the same time-frame as his convictions were based.
Would be a real shame if Manafort’s cooperation turned out to sink both Podesta’s which could start the whole chain unraveling all the way up to the Clinton’s.
Joe diGenova made an interesting comment on Fox last night which, if accurate, may mean the noose may be tightening on some very high profile Democrats. He, apparently, still maintains some highly placed contacts within the SDNY US Attorney’s office. He’s been fairly accurate up to now. I wonder what he really knows?
I saw that. I expect the October surprise is going to be devastating to Democrats and may occur in September.
“Why is Benedict Arnold in our history books?”
A couple of my all time favorite books were Arundel and Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts.
General Benedict Arnold was the main character or “hero” in these stories, which are considered historic novels - the period covered predates the Revolutionary War, when the French and Indians were the enemy, not the British.
Arnold is portrayed as a great leader and an honorable man, and there is no hint of later events and charges for which he is now remembered.
My mother, who was a college history teacher, recommended the books to me when I was in high school in the late sixties. I’m not sure what her intentions were, but ever since reading them, I’ve always had a certain skepticism about what we consider history.
I’ve often wondered if fake news can sometimes become fake history...
In the twentieth century, the US was allied with Brittain and Russia against Germany and Japan, who are now our allies against Russia. These shifts in allegiance occur frequently in our history, and they often happen quickly.
There were similar shifting allegiances that predated the American Revolution wherein the French and the British traded places, sometimes our enemy and sometimes our friend.
Was Benedict Arnold a traitor, or was he simply ‘out of step’ in a period of fast changing allegiances? Would George Washington be remembered as a traitor if the British had put down the colonial rebellion of 1776?
I don’t know the answers, but I suspect history is a lot like the news: some of it is fake.
Kerry broke the laws of the USA. He must be arrested.
Love it!
Because democrats think they are rulers of the world kings all of them crazy but still kings.
That’s about as lame as your stupid salute and “reporting for duty” when the Dems nominated you, idiot John. Go away, go away forever.
Kerry: You are lucky I’m not President.
You would be in custody awaiting trial for violating the Logan Act.
And you are lucky I wasn’t President in 1971. You would have been arrested for treason, given a military trial, likely found guilrty and executed.
Does John ‘Lurch’ Kerry not understand that the CIA or the NSA likely has recordings of his meetings with the terrorist Iranians?
I think there is a legal hammer out there with Lurch’s name on it.
Kerry should have been hanged for treason years ago. He collaborated with the enemy during a time of war.
There is no law in DC.
John Kerry broke Federal _law_, clearly violated the Logan Act. Johnnie and _many_ other DCians should be in prison. There is no law in DC.
DC is a cesspool full of criminals, pretending to tell We-The-People how to live our everyday lives. Putting us in prison, while they do what ever they please, all the time, with immunity.
Kerry couldn’t pour piss from a cowboy boot if the instructions were on the heel. But you know he served in VietNam, though I couldn’t be sure which side he was on.
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