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President Trump fulfilled his campaign promise to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal Tuesday, much to the screeching of the liberal media and world leaders. All three of the major network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and NBC) began their evening news broadcasts in a tailspin and appalled by the President defying our allies, shattering our credibility as a country, and possibly leading us into a war. They each ran not one but two segments hyperventilating about the pull out. And a common theme was how it was damaging Obama’s legacy.
“America's allies had urged the President not to do this,” anchor David Muir announced at the start of ABC’s World News Tonight. “They are reacting tonight, and so is Iran already with a new threat.” And the network’s chief White House correspondent, Jon Karl parroted the sentiment, kicking off his report by saying: “Defying our allies and keeping a campaign promise, President Trump is taking the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal.”
Karl noted that Trump found that the deal fell short in stopping Iran’s financing of terrorism, but no mention of the $1.7 billion cash payment the Obama administration agreed to give them. But he did manage to feel sorry for Obama since his legacy was being tarnished:
Anguished by today's decision, former President Obama. The Iran deal, his chief foreign policy accomplishment. Today in a statement, he warns, "The United States could eventually be left with a losing choice between a nuclear-armed Iran or another war in the Middle East."
In their second report, ABC was worried about how foreign countries and the Iranian people saw the U.S. “They are dismayed and bewildered right now,” ABC reporter Terry Moran said about U.S. allies. “Anger and defiance, (…) saying America's arrogant and can't be trusted,” for the Iranian perspective.
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