BREAKING: Retired top diplomat Phil Gordon just laid bare Trump’s staggering double standard

Retired top diplomat Phil Gordon just laid bare Trump’s staggering double standard: Trump and Republicans spent a decade mocking Obama for the 2016 Iran payment – calling it “insane” and “pallets of cash” – even though it was Iran’s own frozen money!

A decade ago, Trump slammed Obama for giving Iran back $1.7 billion of their own frozen assets, but now he is handing them TEN TIMES that in a futile effort to ease the oil price spike his war has caused!

Now, Trump is handing Iran up to ten times that amount in exchange for nothing more than his hope it will provide temporary relief from the massive oil price surge his own illegal war triggered before the midterms.

He’s essentially bailing out his own economic mess with billions in de facto relief to the very regime he calls “evil” on which he launched an unprovoked attack.

The concession got us the Iran nuclear deal, and resulted in getting hostages released, and strict, verified nuclear restrictions on Iran.

This payment gets us nothing! No nuclear concessions, no hostage releases, no de-escalation: Iran gets to keep targeting U.S. forces, allies, and global oil supplies while Trump effectively pays them off to stop making gas prices even worse.

“This is a desperate recognition of the situation Trump’s own actions have created and the lack of available alternatives for dealing with it,” Gordon said.See more, details. .