Trump Says the U.S. Needs No Iran Deal and Tasks Vance on Crime

The comments appeared in a single Truth Social post published Thursday at 8:07 a.m. Eastern Time and signed “President DJT.”

“I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.,” Trump wrote.

He called Minnesota, California, Illinois “and many more” Blue States “poorly run, corrupt disasters,” alleged that “Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month,” and said the federal budget could be “quickly BALANCED” if that activity were corrected. “CORRUPTION is in the Democrat Leadership’s blood!” he added.

No Deal With Iran

Trump then turned to the war. “We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed,” he wrote. “We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”

The post does not say Vance is being removed from Iran negotiations. The instruction did, however, land on the same day The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had authorized Vance to lead a renewed diplomatic effort with Tehran.

Clash Report earlier reported that account, including Vance’s October letter seeking a meeting with Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary. Rezaei has denied that talks are under way.

Money and the Strait

Trump’s “Hundreds of Billions of Dollars” figure is his own claim and has not been independently verified. Reporting earlier this year put frozen Iranian assets worldwide at about $100 billion, with only about $2 billion held directly in the United States. Most of the funds sit in other countries and remain blocked by U.S. sanctions.

“Their Strait” refers to the Strait of Hormuz, the oil shipping route Iran has restricted during the war. Trump has previously claimed almost total control of the waterway. Iran has rejected that description, and traffic remains contested even as the United States keeps a naval blockade of Iranian ports and a land-border effort Trump has called Task Force Iron Gate.

An Earlier Fraud Mandate

Thursday’s instruction was not Vance’s first anti-fraud assignment. In April, Trump named him “fraud czar” and said the work would focus “EVERYWHERE,” but primarily on Democratic-led states, including California, Illinois, Minnesota, Maine and New York.

The new post did not use that title. It did raise the stakes by telling Vance to devote all of his attention to the issue, while arguing that a deal with Iran is no longer required.