[Hoot Gibson]

The Iran deal was a terrible deal for the U.S. and should have been the subject of a special counsel investigation because Obama essentially signed a treaty that was not ratified by Congress as if not calling it a treaty excused his failure to follow the law. However, like so many other claims that Trump makes, the claim that the $150 billion was "ours" is not even half true. In distorting the facts, Trump just opened himself up for more ridicule by the media and Democrats.

When the truth is devastating without any embellishment, then it is stupid to engage in wild hyperbole. The source of the $150 billion was Iranian funds that had been frozen. A much smaller amount of $1.7 or $1.8 billion was money the U.S. owed Iran as part of an arms deal that predated the overthrow of the Shah of Iran. It could and probably should have been argued that debt was erased when the Iranian terrorists erased the legitimate government of Iran.

Obama's Iranian deal was an illegal treaty that was simply given another title. Iran was and remains an enemy of this country and I view Obama's action as treasonous - certainly one fitting the high crime and misdemeanor threshold for impeachment.

Telling the American people that Obama was a traitor in the pocket of mullahs would have been truthful and supported by the facts. Painting the $150 billion as taxpayer's money spent by Democrats when they refuse to spend much less on a border wall is dishonest and really not an effective argument to make.