Washington: President Donald Trump on Thursday directed Vice President JD Vance to shift his focus away from the Iran war and instead devote himself to fighting what the president says is corruption and crime in Democratic-controlled cities and states.
Vance, who served as the lead negotiator for a short-lived truce in the eight-month old war, has been blunt in blaming the war - and the economic reverberations it has caused - for Republicans’ sweeping losses in last week’s midterm elections in the United States.
But Trump brusquely told the vice president in a social media post on Thursday to shift his energies away from the Iran war to what he argues is a more pressing - and perhaps more politically salient - issue after Republicans were trounced at the polls.
“We don’t need a deal with Iran,” Trump said in the post. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”
Trump earlier this week said that he believed the war “militarily is effectively over,” and appeared to double down on that message by pointedly directing Vance “to focus his complete and total attention” on his anti-fraud campaign.
Democrats have promised intense oversight of Trump’s business dealings and other targets when they take control of Congress in January after…
