One of Donald Trump's recurring refrains ever since the San Bernardino shooting, ostensibly the one which prompted him to declare he would bar Muslims from entering the country - an announcement which has unleashed an unprecedented media scandal - is that the "US is at war." Whether or not that is the case remains to be seen (we expect tens of thousands of US troops to be deployed soon, this time without the protective cloak of CIA "covert ops") but what is certain is that Trump is merely proposing to do what Democrat Jimmy Carter did back on April 7, 1980, when he banned Iranians from the US and deported Iranian students during the Iran hostage crisis - a time when some could argue the US was likewise in war with the Iranian regime.

Courtesy of the Gateway Pundit, here is a screengrab from the ABC News report of President Carter’s Iran speech regarding US cutting relations with Khomeini's regime in Iran.

The full video of Carter's speech is below:



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And here is the full transcript from ABC News: