withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal?

The Iran Nuclear Deal was an agreement reached between the United States, Iran, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and China. It strictly limited the amount of enriched uranium and enrichment equipment Iran could have for a period of 15 years. In exchange, sanctions on Iran were to be lifted, and Iranian funds frozen after the 1979 revolution were to be returned.

Trump described the Obama administration’s “embarrassing” treaty with Iran to be “decaying and rotten.” He withdrew the United States from the deal unilaterally in 2018 and restored prior sanctions. The European Union sought to maintain the agreement, and passed a blocking statute to ban all EU citizens and business with complying with US sanctions on Iran. Iran continued to take part in the agreement until January of 2020, when a US drone strike killed a senior Iranian official.

Before becoming President, Trump said multiple times that Obama would provoke Iran into conflict to secure re-election.

BBC News – Iran nuclear deal: Trump pulls US out in break with Europe allies
The New York Times – Trump Abandons Iran Nuclear Deal He Long Scorned
Business Insider – Here’s what’s in the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran that the country withdrew from amid heightened tensions with the US
Reuters – EU aims to block U.S. sanctions on Iran
Wikipedia – Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

ignored a group of physicians who offered to provide free flu shots to detained immigrants?

Three children, aged 2, 6, and 16, had already died of the flu in US custody at the time the offer was made. U.S. Customs and Border Protection have since said that there would be no plans to vaccinate those in their custody.

Newsweek – Trump administration ignored offer of free fly clinic for migrants despite child deaths, physicians say
CNBC – The US won’t provide flu vaccines to migrant families at border detention camps

used Pharrell Williams’ song “Happy” without permission at a rally hours after a mass shooting?

Williams issued a cease-and-desist for the use of his song, and condemned the choice to do so hours after 11 people were murdered at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Trump has repeatedly used songs without permission and received similar legal threats, including for songs by R.E.M., Aerosmith, Prince, Adele, and the Rolling Stones, among others.

Time – Pharrell Demands President Trump Stop Playing ‘Happy’ at His Political Rallies
BBC News – Pharrell orders Donald Trump to stop playing his music
Quartz – All the pop songs artists have asked Donald Trump not to use, in one playlist

said he would have run unarmed into a school to stop an active shooter?

Trump said that the police response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida was “disgusting.” He claimed that, “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon, and I think most of the people in this room would’ve done that too.”

17 people died in what was at the time the second-deadliest school shooting in American history.

10 years prior, Trump recounted to Howard Stern about how he was too disgusted to help an elderly man who had fallen and was bleeding heavily.

The New York Times – Trump Says He Would Have Rushed in Unarmed to Stop School Shooting
BBC News – Florida school shooting: Trump says ‘I would have run in unarmed’
Fortune – Trump Claims He Would Have Personally Stopped Florida Shooter. Critics Aren’t So Sure

misspelled his wife’s name in a tweet welcoming her home from the hospital?

The tweet read, “Great to have our incredible First Lady back home in the White House. Melanie is feeling and doing really well.”

It was quickly deleted and replaced with one that spelled Melania’s name correctly.

Trump misspells Melania's name in initial tweet welcoming her back to White House

Among others, Trump has also misspelled his own name.

The Hill – Trump misspells Melania’s name in initial tweet welcoming her back to White House
Business Insider – Trump misspelled his wife’s name in a tweet welcoming her home from the hospital

pardoned Scooter Libby?

In a 2007 trial, the former Vice President Cheney chief of staff was was found guilty of four felony counts of perjury and obstruction of justice regarding the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity.

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Irving “Scooter” Libby. Wikipedia

Though President Bush refused to pardon him at the time, Trump did so in 2018. Some political commentators theorized that this was to indicate Trump’s willingness to provide legal cover to allies amid the investigation into Trump’s own obstruction of the Mueller probe into Russian election interference.

Politico – Trump issues pardon for Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby
The New York Times – Trump Pardons Scooter Libby in a Case That Mirrors His Own

pardoned conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza?

D’Souza, who served as policy analyst in the Reagan administration, is a prolific conservative commentator and author. He is known for such works as The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left where he makes the academically fallacious claim that Nazism was leftist and that modern American liberals draw their ideology from Nazism. He has also created conservative documentaries, such as the critically panned film 2016: Obama’s America.

About Dinesh D'Souza
Dinesh D’Souza. www.dineshdsouza.com

D’Souza’s past commentary includes defending conditions at prison Abu Ghraib, in which multiple Iraqi prisoners were tortured, claiming it to be comparable to typical Middle Eastern hotels. He was condemned by liberal and conservative commentators alike for mocking the survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

In 2014, he pleaded guilty to making $20,000 in illegal contributions to the New York Senate campaign of Wendy Long, who ultimately lost to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Trump pardoned him of the crime in 2018.

The New York Times – A Look at Dinesh D’Souza, Pardoned by Trump
The Atlantic – Dinesh D’Souza and the Decline of Conservatism: Under President Trump, the most outrageous and aggrieved polemicists are thriving.
USA Today – Trump pardons Dinesh D’Souza — and might do the same for Rod Blagojevich and Martha Stewart
Wikipedia – Dinesh D’Souza

said about a wedge between the US and South Korea, “I know more about wedges than any human being that’s ever lived, but I’ll let you know”?

Trump had recently announced that he would be ending joint military exercises with South Korea, at the North’s request. During an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump was asked if North Korea was trying to drive a wedge between the US and South Korea when he made the remark.

WSJ: You think North Korea is trying to drive a wedge between the two countries, between you and President Moon?

Mr. Trump: I’ll let you know in—within the next 12 months, OK, Mike?

WSJ: Sure.

Mr. Trump: I will let you know. But if I were them I would try. But the difference is I’m president; other people aren’t. And I know more about wedges than any human being that’s ever lived, but I’ll let you know. But I’ll tell you, you know, when you talk about driving a wedge, we also have a thing called trade. And South Korea—brilliantly makes—we have a trade deficit with South Korea of $31 billion a year. That’s a pretty strong bargaining chip to me.

The Wall Street Journal – Transcript of Donald Trump Interview With The Wall Street Journal

equated “fake news” with anything negative, and suggested taking away press credentials?

Trump has also repeatedly called the media “the enemy of the people.”

 

acknowledged that he made up a claim about having a trade deficit when speaking to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau?

Trump explained to donors that when he was told by the Prime Minister that the US didn’t have in fact have a trade deficit with Canada, he said:

“‘Wrong, Justin, you do.’ I didn’t even know. I had no idea. I just said, ‘You’re wrong.'”

CBS News – Trump tells donors he made up trade claim in Trudeau talk
The New York Times – Trump Says He Made Up Deficit Claim in Talk with Trudeau, Baffling Canadians
The Washington Post – In fundraising speech, Trump says he made up trade claim in meeting with Justin Trudeau

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