President Trump had the NRA crowd in stitches today over former Secretary of State John Kerry’s misfortunes amid reports the Obama appointee is talking with Iran to save the nuke deal.
Trump on John Kerry: “Not the best negotiator we’ve ever seen. He never walked away from the table. Except when he went to the bicycle race, where he fell and broke his leg.” pic.twitter.com/tvvWjmYKjE
— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) May 4, 2018
Mocking Kerry, Trump said, “Not the best negotiator we’ve ever seen. He never walked away from the table. Except to be in that bicycle race where he fell and broke his leg–that was the only time.”
“And I learned from that,” Trump deadpanned, “At 73 years old never go into a bicycle race.”
He was speaking about this 2015 incident, according to ABC News:
Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in a bike accident in France, the State Department said today.
“Given the injury is near the site of his prior hip surgery, he will return to Boston today to seek treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital with his doctor who did the prior surgery,” a State Department spokesman said in a statement.
Kerry is stable and never lost consciousness. He is expected to make a full recovery.
ABC reported Kerry was “spotted regularly during breaks in the intense Iran nuclear negotiations biking around Lake Geneva.”
Now, Kerry has been busted subverting the current adminstration’s diplomatic actions.
The Boston Globe reports:
John Kerry’s bid to save one of his most significant accomplishments as secretary of state took him to New York on a Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, where, more than a year after he left office, he engaged in some unusual shadow diplomacy with a top-ranking Iranian official.
He sat down at the United Nations with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to discuss ways of preserving the pact limiting Iran’s nuclear weapons program. It was the second time in about two months that the two had met to strategize over salvaging a deal they spent years negotiating during the Obama administration, according to a person briefed on the meetings.
With the Iran deal facing its gravest threat since it was signed in 2015, Kerry has been on an aggressive yet stealthy mission to preserve it, using his deep lists of contacts gleaned during his time as the top US diplomat to try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside. President Trump, who has consistently criticized the pact and campaigned in 2016 on scuttling it, faces a May 12 deadline to decide whether to continue abiding by its terms.
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