ZTE: Proof Positive that Trump is a Total Moron

Last week Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, announcing that he would reinstate sanctions on Iran. All our allies opposed the move, and all indications were that Iran was abiding by it.

But since Barack Obama negotiated that deal, Trump wanted to kill it. Because, like some stray dog, Trump has to piss all over everything that smelled of the other guy.

The immediate effect was to cause a flurry of Iranian rocket attacks against Israeli targets in the Golan Heights and retaliatory strikes on Iranian targets in Syria by Israeli jets.

Then the Chinese cell phone manufacturer ZTE announced that it was shutting down because the US government banned it from buying American technology. Last year ZTE paid a $1.19 billion fine for violating sanctions by selling cell phone technology to Iran and North Korea.

Many in the intelligence community believe that ZTE's technology is used by the Chinese government to spy on Americans. When Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asked the heads of the CIA and FBI if they would recommend Americans buy ZTE phones, they would not. And a bill has been introduced in Congress to prohibit the use of ZTE equipment by the US government.

But now Trump says he's going to help ZTE get back into business:

“President Xi [Jingping] of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast,” the president wrote on Twitter. “Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!”

What?!? Trump has been screaming for years about how China is raping the United States and stealing our jobs, and now he's worried about Chinese people losing their jobs and saving a company that spies on us and stabbed us in the back by helping Iran. Right after he reimposed sanctions on Iran? Huh?

Trump is a total moron. Maybe he's got some corrupt backroom deal going, and he's using ZTE to extort something from China. Maybe to get to China to pressure North Korea to disarm. But since Kim Jong Un will never give up his nukes (it would be suicide), Trump is being played by Xi and Kim.

The shutdown of ZTE was supposed to be a signal to the world that the United States means business when it comes to sanctions on Iran and North Korea. By caving in to Chinese pressure to help a company owned by the Chinese government Trump showed he is either an idiot, a pussy or a crook.

I'm betting on all three.