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Buckeyeblue

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3. It's basically paying ransom for oil that Iran is holding hostage

Reply to Johnny2X2X (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 15, 2026, 08:21 AM

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Trump is desperate to get the price of oil down well ahead of the midterms. And he loves to spend money that isn't his, so paying off Iran to put oil back into the economy is really his only option. Trump knows that if he losses Congress he is not only a lame duck, but he will most likely see the worst of the Epstein files exposed...and everything else will be put under a spot light.

I think a newly Democraticly controlled Congress will look to humiliate Trump.

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