Crim Says Corker Should Bow Out Of Secretary Of State Vetting Because Of His Part In Iran Deal

  • Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Larry Crim, a Nashville businessman and U.S. Senate candidate in 2018 for the seat held by Senator Bob Corker, said Senator Corker “should” and he believes “is considering exiting the vetting process for Secretary of State” because “Corker enabled the Iran Nuclear Pact of the Obama administration which President Elect Trump rightfully called a disaster.”  
Mr.
Crim said, “Corker bypassed the Constitution’s Treaty Clause to green light President Obama’s arms control agreement with Iran including release of some $150 billion to a foreign power” without subjecting it to approval by two thirds of the senators as provided in the Constitution (Const. Art 2, Sect 2).  
He said, "Trump has called the Iran Nuclear Pact a 'disaster' and 'the worst deal ever negotiated'.  When speaking to AIPAA, a pro-Israel lobby group, candidate Trump said his 'Number-One priority' would be to 'dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran.' It is reasonable to assume Corker – the enabler-in-chief of the Iran deal - and President Elect Trump, who said it was the worst deal ever negotiated, do not agree on this key foreign policy issue. 
“The Iran deal was a nuclear arms agreement which may be, reasonably should be and historically has been subject to supermajority approval by the Senate. As chairman of Foreign Relations, Corker should have asserted, rather than retreated from, the constitutionally permissible and rightful role of the senate to require supermajority approval. Had Senator Corker done so in this case, the Iran Nuclear Deal would never have passed the Senate.”
 
"The Iran Nuclear Deal, if deemed to constitute a 'treaty', could be declared void ab initio (from the beginning) since any act contrary to the Constitution is legally void. On the other hand, if the Pact is deemed less than a treaty, or an Executive Agreement, then it may be subject to repeal by the succeeding Executive, which Mr. Trump has pledged to do.” 


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