When I see the convicted felon talking about the JCPOA, I think he may be the stupidest person ever to attempt to explain an international nuclear agreement he clearly doesn’t understand. The JCPOA wasn’t about giving Iran billions of American taxpayer dollars. It was a multinational agreement negotiated by the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. It restricted uranium enrichment to 3.67%, drastically reduced Iran’s uranium stockpile, limited its centrifuges, and established extensive international inspections. In exchange, Iran received sanctions relief and access to its own previously frozen assets, not some imaginary gift from Nobel Prize Winner President Obama. The $1.7 billion cash payment he keeps lying about was a separate settlement involving $400 million Iran had paid the United States for military equipment that was never delivered, plus $1.3 billion in negotiated interest. That dispute originated in 1979, decades before the JCPOA. And here’s what makes his stupidity particularly remarkable. The International Atomic Energy Agency repeatedly verified Iran’s compliance. Even his own State Department acknowledged that Iran was meeting its nuclear commitments. Then, in May 2018, the convicted felon unilaterally withdrew the United States from the agreement despite that compliance. Following his withdrawal and the reimposition of sanctions, Iran began exceeding the agreement’s nuclear restrictions in 2019, expanded uranium enrichment, and eventually enriched uranium to 60%, far beyond what the JCPOA permitted. International inspectors subsequently lost much of the access they previously enjoyed. He destroyed an agreement that was restricting Iran’s nuclear program, replaced it with a maximum-pressure policy that failed to secure a better agreement, and eventually launched a devastating war against Iran without congressional authorization. And now he wants Americans to believe Obama was responsible for Iran’s nuclear advances? The JCPOA was designed to prevent precisely the nuclear escalation that followed his withdrawal. He inherited an agreement with enforceable restrictions and international inspections, abandoned it, and then blamed everyone else for the consequences. His problem isn’t that the JCPOA was too complicated. It’s that he refuses to acknowledge what the agreement actually accomplished or take responsibility for what happened after he destroyed American participation in it.