The third senior Trump administration official, discussing the recent negotiations with Iran, also revealed a profound lack of experience or expertise to understand the issues involved, including claiming-- bizarrely--that the Iranians thought the US negotiators, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, would somehow never bother to read their proposal closely.
“One of the things that we said to the Iranians is we wanted to see… some sort of plan from them as to how they would address our enrichment demands,” the third senior Trump administration official said. “They brought with them a seven page plan, which, interestingly enough, they wouldn’t leave it with us, but they did hand it to us and allowed us to read it, thinking that we would never actually spend the time in reading it. Jared read it from throughout, went through every piece of it, as did I. So we have an intimate knowledge of what was in there. They basically premised their program on their internal needs, and then had a flow chart at the back that showed what their internal needs would be.”