Baker on Comey: Trump Wants to Make Deals with Iran, Which According to Intelligence Agencies, Sponsored Efforts to Assassinate Him

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
WITT: “Okay, I have another question for Peter, and then I have another one that I hope you do really get into. But Peter, we have three of your colleagues at The New York Times. They are highlighting the difference between Trump abroad and at home, writing this at home, President Trump is ordering up investigations into his political opponents and finding creative ways to use his executive power to ruin the lives of even some of his milder critics abroad. Mr. Trump has sent a different message let bygones be bygones, even if those bygones involve trying to assassinate him or working with al qaeda. What do you make of that?”

BAKER: “Well, I mean, this is a classic example, right? We just talked. About a. Post by. Jim Comey who clearly does not intend any violence against the president of United States, and they’re now investigating. Him, or at least. Trying to put pressure on him by having him questioned. At the same time, the president, United States, is trying to make a deal with Iran, which actually has. By all. Accounts of the intelligence. Agencies. Sponsored multiple efforts. To assassinate him. Because of the killing of. General soleimani back when. President Trump was in his. First term. The Iranians. Have tried to assassinate. President Trump, and they have threatened to assassinate a number of his top people. From that time. As well. But the president is willing to put that aside in favor of negotiations. For a nuclear deal. Now, that’s a very, perhaps the realist way of looking at things. You have to talk to your enemies. But there’s a contrast between his willingness to deal with people who are literally been trying to kill him abroad and make trouble for people at home who are obviously not.”