Trump: Iran deal was so bad it’s suspicious

 

Republican presidential front-runner Donald TrumpDonald TrumpCruz announces California rallies Conservative group targets Trump in Medicare drug pricing debate 43 most startling moments of the campaign - Part 4 MORE says the nuclear deal with Iran is so bad, he is close to wondering whether it was done poorly on purpose.

 

“It’s almost like there has to be something else going on,” he said Saturday night at a rally in Biloxi, Miss. “I don’t think there is, I just don’t think they’re competent.”

 

Trump said he couldn’t believe the U.S. would agree to a deal with Iran that did not include the return of Americans held prisoner in Iran.

 

“Who would make that deal?” he asked, suggesting Tehran was celebrating as the agreement was being negotiated.

 

The billionaire businessman said American negotiators should have began the process by insisting on getting the prisoners back.

 

He said Iran would have refused, but afterward, “you double and triple up your sanctions” and it would change Iran’s tune.

 

Trump pledged of the prisoners: “They will be out before I take office.”

 

And of Secretary of State John KerryJohn KerryKerry makes unannounced stop in Iraq amid ISIS fight Kerry sets record as most-traveled secretary of State Kerry: 'We are definitively at war with ISIS' MORE: “I can’t believe they didn’t walk from that negotiation.”

 

“People want, not that phony Obama change,” he added. “People want strength, they want competence.”