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Gerry Connolly: “It wasn't Iran. It was President Donald J. Trump. And that did not make the world safer; it made it more dangerous.”

On the recordJanuary 13, 2020
It wasn't Iran. It was President Donald J. Trump. And that did not make the world safer; it made it more dangerous.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Connolly blames Trump for increasing danger by withdrawing from the JCPOA.

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