When it comes to the current chaos in the Middle East, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi developed a novel theory on who is to blame as he guest hosted Friday’s The Last Word. For Velshi, it is Donald Trump.
Velshi never mentioned Trump’s name, but it is clear who he was talking about when, against the backdrop of U.S. airstrikes against Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and proxy targets in retaliation for the attack in Jordan that killed three American soldiers, he told analyst and Iran nuclear deal architect Ben Rhodes:
I have been thinking all day, that back when we had that– what was called the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear deal, and people, a lot of people had beef about it. They thought it was not the best deal around. I always thought that the one thing it does do is that it gets America and Iran around the same table, something that hasn’t…
