Trump’s tweet acknowledged his mistake although it came after he claimed at two different rallies that he’d seen video of a cash delivery to Iran.
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Two days after he generated questions for describing an Iranian government video purportedly showing a $400 million cash payment from the United States, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the video in question was actually USA prisoners in Iran being dropped off in Switzerland.
On Wednesday Trump told a crowd of his supporters he had viewed a “top secret” video of the money exchange.
“It was interesting because a tape was made, you saw that?”
Even after his campaign said the video he was describing did not show the cash transfer, Trump repeated the claim at a rally in ME on Thursday.
UPDATE: 9:11 p.m. ― A video clip shown on Fox News Wednesday morning appeared to show US citizens arriving in Geneva on January 17.
Clinton’s campaign also released a TV ad Wednesday featuring Trump shrugging off the fact that many of his name-brand products were made overseas in a past interview with David Letterman.
Trump, meanwhile continued to blame the US President Barack Obama and his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who is now the Democratic presidential nominee for the current instability in the Middle East. “It’s a tape that was a flawless angle, nice and steady”. “Nobody getting nervous because they are going to be shot, because they are shooting a picture of money pouring off of plane”.
‘I mean, who would ever think that they would be taking all of this money off of the plane, and then providing us with the tape?’ the Republican presidential nominee asked.
Speaking to a crowd of supporters in Portland, Maine, the GOP presidential nominee joined other members of his party in condemning the transfer of funds from the USA government to Iran on the same day four Americans were released.
Donald Trump appears to have admitted he was wrong when he claimed he saw footage of cash being transferred to Iran. “With the airplane coming in, nice plane … and the money coming off, I guess”.
On Aug. 5, several hours after Trump’s tweet, conservative websites including the Washington Free Beacon posted footage from what it called an Iranian documentary aired earlier this year in Iran.
Donald Trump, who abuses the truth dozens of times daily – the nonpartisan Politifact has ranked 69% of his claims “mostly false”, “false” or “pants on fire” lies – has finally found the need to correct himself. What he actually saw was b-roll footage that has been used in American news broadcasts. “And you know why the tape was given to us?”
Would that be the one from the United States containing $400 million in cash that the Obama administration claimed was not a ransom?
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Iran released that tape so that we will be embarrassed.
