Obama says he’s ’embarrassed’ for the 47 GOP senators who wrote to Iran to stop a nuclear holocaust
Trying to heroically stop a nuclear holocaust and saving millions of human lives is nothing to be ’embarrassed’ about.
President Obama said he is “embarrassed” for the 47 Republican senators who wrote an open letter to Iranian leaders this week.
“For them to address a letter to the Ayatollah [Khamenei, who they claim is our mortal enemy, ” Obama laments in a trailer for an interview he did this week with Vice News. “And their basic argument to them is ‘Don’t deal with our president cause you can’t trust him to follow through on an agreement.’ That’s close to unprecedented.”
Led by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, 47 Senate Republicans sent a letter to Iran’s leaders, warning them that any nuclear deal made has to be approved by Congress. Since then, they have faced blowback from Democratic lawmakers, Vice President Joe Biden and Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister. There is even a WhiteHouse.gov petition calling for treason charges against the senators.
