I acquired a copy of the White House talking points on the Iran MoU and it reads like an accidental confession memo written by a fifth grader. It took the White House four or five days to produce this — and they still have not released the actual MoU. They are trying to claim total victory while admitting there is no final deal. Now look at their top five points. 1) “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.” That is not a term. That is an aspiration. It is also only one of the objectives the administration laid out at the start. The stated goal was not merely “no nuclear weapon.” It was to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons capacity, ballistic missile production, and terror proxy network. So where are the missile provisions? Where are the proxy provisions? Where is the enforcement mechanism? 2) “President Trump ended the fighting on every front, including Lebanon.” Are we supposed to be this dumb? If Hezbollah is still attacking Israel as they are tonight, the fighting is not “over.” What this really means is that the White House is tying Israel’s freedom of action against Hezbollah to Trump’s Iran deal. That puts the U.S. right back in the Obama role: restraining our ally to preserve a deal with our enemy. It also throws Lebanon under the bus — at least the part of Lebanon not controlled by Hezbollah. 3) “The Strait of Hormuz is open again, free of charge.” This could be the most absurd talking point in the whole memo but there are just so many contenders. Iran threatened the world’s oil artery, then gets relief for reopening what it had no right to close. That is not “performance.” That is hostage-taking with a tariff schedule. And if the Strait needed to be opened, the United States had the military power to open it. Instead, Trump is treating Iranian blackmail as a deliverable. 4) “Iran’s rewards come from its own unfrozen money, not American taxpayers.” Spare us. Sanctions are leverage. Unfreezing Iranian funds gives the regime resources it otherwise would not have. Money is fungible. Whether it comes from U.S. taxpayers or frozen accounts, the strategic effect is the same: Iran gets cash and we know how they'll use it. I'm just waiting for Vance to literally repeat John Kerry verbatim. If Iran’s nuclear program is “in ruins,” its military is “gutted,” its economy is “collapsing,” and the regime had “no other choice left,” why are we rewarding it, rebuilding it, and negotiating with it at all? 5) “Obama never even got a signed document. President Trump did.” Really? That is point five? I had to re-read that several times. Who cares if the document is signed? Is Trump planning to sue them in court? Is that a deliverable? Obama at least released the awful JCPOA text in 2015, while hiding several annexes. Trump’s team is bragging about signing an MoU they will not show us yet, for a deal they haven't delivered. On Hannity, JD Vance was asked why they will not release it. His answer was that it would come Friday because of protocol nonsense reasons reasons reasons. Seriously? We have a president who claims he can declassify anything, anytime he wants — but somehow the Iran MoU is trapped in paperwork? The reality is that the administration’s own talking points give away the game. They are asking us to trust slogans because they do not want us reading terms. The terms that Vance and Trump discuss publicly should be unacceptable to anyone who cares about national security. Right now, what we have is a hidden MoU, a bunch of chest-thumping, and the JCPOA playbook with less transparency. The White House says Trump negotiated from strength <-- they keep repeating that word like we're imbeciles. Fine. Then show us why he squandered it.