Well. It isn’t a payment when it’s Iran’s own money.
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Criticizing U.S. President Barack Obama over reports suggesting that the government paid Dollars 400 million to Iran in January for the release of Americans held as prisoners there, Illinois Sen.
“We can’t have the president of the United States acting like the drug dealer in chief”, Kirk said.
Last week, the Obama administration claimed the $400 million payment was used as leverage to push for the release of four us prisoners, NBC News reported.
Republicans have aggressively criticized Obama over the payment, which coincided with the release of four American prisoners held in Iran in January and was made public at the same time. The administration denies the money was “ransom”. Duckworth and other Democrats call for Kirk to apologize. Authorities say police approached a wo.
Pressed to address Kirk’s comment about President Obama more specifically, Rauner repeatedly raised his hands in air as he tried to shrug off the questions.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday Kirk’s rhetoric is inconsistent with how most people in IL view Obama’s efforts to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Mark Kirk announced that a subcommittee he chairs will hold a hearing on the matter in September.
Given an opportunity to clarify Kirk’s “drug dealer in chief” comment, his campaign manager, Kevin Artl, reiterated the same criticism about “pallets of cash” that his boss originally made. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, a “bro with no ho”, adding, “that’s what we’d say on the South Side”.
In April, Kirk said he supported black businesses so the black community “is not the one we drive faster through”.
“It’s no surprise Mark Kirk is embracing a conspiracy theory first articulated by Donald Trump – one that has already been debunked by numerous fact checkers”, he said.
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The slippery Kirk jettisoned Trump only in order to protect himself, yet he would not have endorsed Trump in the first place had he a lick of sense, not to say integrity.
