President Trump on Sunday called for the impeachment of Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) after the Democrat legislator criticized the president for pulling out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in his first term.

“Senator Jack Reed, a Dumocrat from R.I., lied when stating the the Deal we just made is not as good as the Obama disaster known as the JCPOA. Reed is either an outright fraud, or incompetent,” Trump said on Truth Social.

“The Obuma Deal was a road to a Nuclear weapon for Iran, cash and all, one of the worst and dumbest (hence Dumocrats!) Deals ever made by the U.S. Our Deal is a WALL against Iran ever having a Nuclear weapon, the complete opposite of Obuma. Impeach Jack Reed!” he added.

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A sitting senator cannot be impeached but can be expelled through a resolution that requires a two-thirds majority vote.

The president’s comments came hours after Reed made an appearance on Fox News’s “Fox News Sunday,” where he described the new deal as a “birthday gift” for Trump that fails to ensure more safety from the Iranian regime and also does not secure long-term non-proliferation objectives.

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“First of all, we’re in a much worse position than we were under the JCPOA. The breakout time, that is, the time it would take to assemble enough enriched uranium to develop a weapon, was 12 months during the JCPOA. Today it’s a week,” Reed said of Iran’s nuclear weapons program to show host Shannon Bream.

“We are negotiating against a country which its leadership has been eliminated. Now we have even more fanatical leadership who has much more invested and much more to leverage their position. … Abandoning the JCPOA was a bad mistake by the president. Now we can try to get back, but it’s going to be a difficult process to get back to that position,” he added.

Trump and Vice President Vance signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran on Sunday that will spur a 60-day period of negotiations to build the conditions of a longer agreement.

“Reuters is reporting that part of the deal is $24 billion in sanctions relief for the Iranians. So this is not a ‘we win and you do what we say.’ This is, ‘how can we open up the straits? What will it cost us?'” Reed said.

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Reed brushed off Trump’s criticism at an unrelated event Monday.

“The president does not like to be questioned in any way, shape or form, which is bad for an executive,” Reed told reporters. “Executives — the good ones — listen to criticism and then rationally dispose of or concur with it. That was just a tirade by someone who was upset.”

He added, “And I think he was upset because there was a lot of truth in my statement. We don’t have a deal yet — we have a deal to make a deal.”

Local Democrats quickly rushed to Reed’s defense.

“It is deeply sad that this is a message from the president of the United States,” Democratic gubernatorial candidate Helena Foulkes wrote on social media. “Rhode Islanders are lucky to have Jack Reed fighting for us in the Senate.”

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U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse simply reposted Trump’s post accompanied by a GIF of Jack Nicholson in the movie “A Few Good Men” saying, “You can’t handle the truth!”

 

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