From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

The Armstrong and show Getty.

The Armstrong and Getty show.

So kind of breaking news.

Don't want to throw on it because it's another Trump story.

The Manhattan DA has obtained Trump's tax returns how long till it leaks out in one form or another and how gleefully does everybody pass it along even though in theory you don't you know name you know engage in hacked material.

No please unless it's convenient how quickly will Trump's taxes come out of that office for everyone to see that will will it even last today.

Well and income for that hypocrisy and stay for people screaming about how Trump took advantage of tax laws look at how literally paid and what you want here is those same Democrats who passed those laws saying and we want to change them.

No they'll just faint outrage.

So more on that later I thought this was damn interesting I always perk up when somebody changes their opinion because it happens so seldom.

That yeah you usually have to think man they really mean this.

What I learned in an Iranian prison written by an academic in the Wall Street Journal today the sub headline being US foreign policy isn't to blame for the mullahs deep rooted hatred of America and the Americans.

He goes to great pains in the opening paragraphs to explain how he had been taught as an academic coming up through the most prestigious schools in America that the Iranian government for all these years has hated us because of our historic policies you know the go back to the shaw and CIA back in the 50s and all that sort of stuff and.

It's all it's all driven by our policies and if we would stop acting the way we act Iran would be a good country I think most of us who studied this sort of thing in school were taught the very same thing and he was a big fan of the Obama administrations.

It's a nuclear deal with Iran to try to stop the weapon from happening and I thought it was a new era and he decided to go over to Iran and do some studying as an academic working on his PhD.

How that work as I mentioned in the headline is a former Iranian prisoner so I'll start reading from the article now.

Nothing I'd learned during my years in the ivory towers of academia had prepared me for the reality I encountered in an Iranian prison he was arrested almost immediately upon getting to Iran by the way he went there to study.

With a with a anti American pro-Iranian view of the world and got arrested almost immediately I learned what many Iranians already know the regime's hostility toward the United States isn't reactive but proactive rooted in a fierce anti-Americanism a meshed in an anti-imperialist

anti-imperialist they don't like imperialism edit this together when we actually are at your word straight Jack ideology thank you Mr. Biden as I witnessed firsthand to ran isn't interested in normalizing relations with Washington it survives and thrives on itself perpetuated hostility against the west a posture that has been integral to the regime's identity the regime didn't regard president Obama's engagement as a goodwill gesture

as I did but rather as an iron fist under a velvet glove Iran's revolutionary regime retains power through conspiracy and intrigue and use everything through that lens the notion that it will be difficult for the US to regain Iran's trust after quitting the JCPOA is incorrect the Iranian regime has never trusted the US and it never will

this is a guy who is pro the JCPOA nuclear arms deal under Obama he now doesn't think it was a good idea having spent nearly three and a half years in an Iranian prison being tortured among other things

the menace of the Islamic Republic can't be appeased it must be counted and restrained only the US has the capacity to lead such an endeavor for 42 years Iran is demonstrated that it changes its behavior only in response to strength in the form of American led international pressure if the Biden administration returns to the JCPOA without extracting concessions from Iran beyond the nuclear threat it will relinquish all US leverage over the regime diplomacy can't succeed without leverage only by showing

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