US President Donald Trump has turned on Vice President JD Vance in the wake of the Republican defeat in the midterm elections, Dr. Kobi Barda, a US affairs expert at the Holon Institute of Technology's (HIT) Multidisciplinary School, said in an interview on 103FM on Friday.“One of the interesting things happening in the last 24 hours is the sacrificing of JD Vance,” Barda said, pointing to two signs that Vance has fallen out of favor with the president.“The first is his (Trump's) post in which he said he instructed Vance to stop dealing with Iran, and the second is a leak to The Wall Street Journal in which Trump sees him as to blame for halting the war.”On Thursday, Trump wrote on Truth Social that he had asked Vance to turn his attention to alleged corruption in Democratic-led states, and declared that the US no longer needed a deal with Iran. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that Trump had privately questioned whether the June memorandum of understanding Vance helped negotiate with Iran was a costly mistake that gave Tehran time to regroup.Trump-Vance rift is a 'family feud'Barda said the rift could be traced back to the post Vance published the day after the November 3 midterms.“In the post JD put up a day after the defeat, he…
US affairs expert: Trump ‘sacrificing’ Vance, shifting to economic pressure on Iran after midterms
The midterm defeat was a loss 'of biblical proportions,' Dr. Kobi Barda explained, adding that Trump is now betting on a two-year economic siege of Tehran rather than renewed strikes.
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US President Donald Trump has turned on Vice President JD Vance in the wake of the Republican defeat in the midterm elections, Dr. Kobi Barda, a US affairs expert at the Holon Institute of Technology's (HIT) Multidisciplinary School, said in an interview on 103FM on Friday.“One of the interesting things happening in the last 24 hours is the sacrificing of JD Vance,” Barda said, pointing to two signs that Vance has fallen out of favor with the president.“The first is his (Trump's) post in which he said he instructed Vance to stop dealing with Iran, and the second is a leak to The Wall Street Journal in which Trump sees him as to blame for halting the war.”On Thursday, Trump wrote on Truth…
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