President Donald Trump tore into former President Barack Obama's Iran nuclear deal on Sunday, accusing him of empowering Tehran while defending his own military action against Iran."Obama signed that stupid deal where he paid them billions and billions of dollars, he thought he could bribe them," Trump told Kristen Welker during a "Meet the Press" interview in Wisconsin.Trump made the comments after Welker challenged him on Iran’s nuclear program and argued Tehran moved closest to weapons-grade uranium after Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement."They were developing it during the nuclear deal," Trump said."You don’t know that?"President Donald Trump defended his Iran policy during a tense NBC interview, saying the Obama-era nuclear deal failed to stop Tehran from advancing its program.
(Salwan Georges/Bloomberg)TRUMP UNLEASHES ON OBAMA'S 'DISASTER' IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL, SAYS HE WAS 'HONORED' TO RIP IT APARTTrump directly blamed Obama for Iran's nuclear progress, saying the former president's agreement failed to stop Tehran from advancing toward a weapon."They got all of this uranium during Obama, you know that, don’t you?" Trump said."That’s how they got there… They got there.
They developed it during the Obama, Barack Hussein Obama ..."Welker pushed back, saying Iran "escalated their development" after the deal was ended, before trying to move the interview to the economy.Trump interrupted to argue that his decision to strike Iran prevented a catastrophic outcome."If I didn’t go in there with the B-2 bombers, they would right now have a nuclear weapon, and it could be that half of the world would be eradicated," Trump said.Earlier in the interview, Trump defended his decision to take military action despite years of campaigning against "endless wars.""I had to stop a country — very powerful, very dangerous country — from having a nuclear weapon because they’d use it," Trump said."They’d blow up the world, they’d blow up the Middle Ea...