Trump says he will renegotiate Iran deal
WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says that if elected, he would work to improve the “horrible” international agreement with Iran to rein in that country’s nuclear arms program.
“I do like to buy bad contracts,” the billionaire real estate mogul said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program, explaining why he believes he is qualified to renegotiate the deal, which involved not only representatives of the U.S. but also of Germany, Britain, France, Russia and China.
Trump repeated his charge that the deal was “negotiated by totally incompetent people.”
Trump bristled Thursday when well-known conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked him about a variety of overseas issues. He accused Hewitt of asking “gotcha questions” when Hewitt quizzed him on the names of top leaders of Islamist terrorism. Trump angrily stumbled through his retort before landing on braggadocio.
“When you’re asking me about who’s running this, this, this, that’s not, that is not – I will be so good at the military, your head will spin,” he said.
The tense interaction with Hewitt could set up the next GOP debate as a sort of sequel to the first: Hewitt is one of its moderators.
Huckabee plans to meet jailed clerk
WASHINGTON – Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is scheduled to visit a Kentucky jail next week to meet with a county clerk imprisoned because she ignored repeated court orders to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
Huckabee, a Baptist pastor and Republican presidential candidate, plans to host a rally in county clerk Kim Davis’ honor after the private meeting outside the Carter County Detention Center.
“Having Kim Davis in federal custody removes all doubt of the criminalization of Christianity in our country,” Huckabee said in a statement issued Friday. “What a world, where Hillary Clinton isn’t in jail but Kim Davis is.”
Davis’ jailing offers the many Republican presidential candidates an opportunity to appeal to the GOP’s evangelical Christian wing, which opposes same-sex marriage and casts Davis’ imprisonment as an issue of religious freedom.
Associated Press
