US affairs expert: Trump ‘sacrificing’ Vance, shifting to economic pressure on Iran after midterms
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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.
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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