> Like buying off Trump That’s a weird thing to say considering that the Iran hostage crisis helped swing an election almost half a century ago. It’s not like

> Like buying off Trump That’s a weird thing to say considering that the Iran hostage crisis helped swing an election almost half a century ago. It’s not like nobody thought about going to Iran until someone bribed Trump to do it. The far more rational theory is that Trump did it to deflect from his failure to combat inflation domestically. They made an entire movie about his. (Wag the Dog.)