Donald Trump keeps saying the United States is close to a deal with Iran, but Trump has been making the same statement for months in what appears to be an attempt to manipulate the stock market and oil prices.
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper recently echoed a series of claims Trump made a few months ago that a deal was being done with Iran:
We have important points of agreement. They want to make a deal, and we are more than willing to do that.
Well, I think we’ll end it. I can’t tell you for sure.
But they want to make a deal so bad. You have no idea how much they want to make a deal.
They want to make a deal so bad.
I see an agreement in Iran.
We were very close to an agreement.
I think it’s almost over. I mean, I consider it very close to the end.
It looks very promising that we can make a deal with Iran, and it will be a good deal.
This process should go very quickly.
We will end this war very quickly. They want to make a deal so bad.
We think we are close to an agreement and that’s okay.
We are in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal.
At this point, the only thing that is fact is that Trump is a pathological liar, and when it comes to his war in Iran, he has repeated over and over again a version of the same lie that the war will end soon.
Trump also threw a tantrum when Iran released a list of points that were supposedly in the memorandum of understanding.