Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Demanding Trump Reveal His Deal With Iran, Stop Hiding Secret Negotiations, & End The War Immediately

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor demanding that Donald Trump be transparent about his deal with Iran, brief Congress, release the official text of the so-called "understanding" to the public, and disclose any secret deals to the American people immediately. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

We've been told dozens of times that this war is over, and dozens of times we've been disappointed.

Three days after Trump announced his so-called "understanding" with Iran, the American people still have no understanding of what it actually is because Trump refuses to tell us.

Now more than ever the administration must come clean and let people actually know what's in the so-called "understanding" because when details start to leak in the press, it only adds to the confusion.

The administration still hasn't released the text officially and continues to send mixed messages about what the so-called "understanding" and future negotiations entail.

One administration official told CNN: "People shouldn't read too much into the language of the Memorandum of Understanding." Can you believe it? There's something out there, and they say don't believe it, but they won't tell us what it is. The American people have a right to know what it is. The Congress has a right to know what it is. And they said, another administration official, "what's more important than the actual document," he said, "is the understandings we have with each other." What are they? We need to know.

It is just outrageous, outrageous that the administration is now saying that that whatever's in the MOU is not the real agreement.

This is foreign policy by clown car, except it's dangerous. The Trump administration insists that this understanding will bring peace, but they refuse to release the text officially, and then say that we shouldn't give the memo too much weight because there are secret side negotiations that are more important.

How deceptive. How nasty. How dangerous for the American people. I call on Trump to brief Congress, release the official text of the so-called "understanding" to the public, and to disclose any secret deals to the American people immediately. If there are secret side deals, we ought to know about them. The American people have a right to know about them in this dangerous world.

So why is the administration deliberately deceiving the American people by saying, well, what's in this agreement -- or at least been published in this agreement is not true. The administration is deliberately deceiving the American people because they're afraid that it will show that Trump has capitulated and been taken advantage of, that Iran has gotten the better of this deal because Trump didn't know what his goals were when he began it and kept going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth about what it should be, what it is, what is happening.

So I say to Donald Trump: stop keeping the American people in the dark.

Your actions, President Trump leave Americans wondering: are our troops safe? What are you promising to Iran? How much longer will gas prices continue to skyrocket?

Americans want to know: what has Trump's war gotten them? What was this whole blunder for?

By every measure, every measure, Trump's disastrous war has left America worse off. No wonder they don't want to release the real details. They're probably - Trump is probably embarrassed.

Iran has more control over the Strait of Hormuz than before Trump's war.

The Iranian regime is more radical, more extreme, more hardline, than before the war.

Gas prices are dramatically higher than they were before the war.

Americans need to know when this war will end - not in Trump's imagination, not in some document that they discredit, but in real life.

Donald Trump: reveal the deal, stop hiding any secret negotiations, and end this war now.

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