No one from the Trump campaign has explained why he claimed it was a military video from Iran.
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Trump’s tweet sets the record straight on a claim he made at a campaign rally Wednesday, the day a Wall Street Journal article raised questions about American cash payments sent to Iran in January, as three Americans were released from Iranian prisons.
That was a departure from what Trump said Wednesday and Thursday during campaign stops in Daytona Beach, Florida and Portland Maine, when he claimed Iran had released video of the cash delivery to embarrass the U.S.
Trump then said via Twitter Friday that he had only seen the American prisoners arriving in Geneva, Switzerland.
Abedini said he is more concerned about worsening human rights conditions in Iran. And at the time we explained that Iran had pressed a claim before an global tribunal about them recovering money of theirs that we had frozen; that, as a effect of its working its way through the worldwide tribunal, it was the assessment of our lawyers that we were now at a point where there was significant litigation risk and we could end up costing ourselves billions of dollars.
The White House continues to deny that the $400 million given to Iran in a cash payment of other currencies under the cover of night was not a ransom payment for the four Americans Tehran released.
“I don’t think you’ve heard this anywhere but here”. Obama Administration officials say the payment settled a decades-long dispute negotiated by an global court at The Hague and the timing was coincidental.
The Republican presidential candidate had claimed on two occasions at political rallies this week that the United States government had paid Iran to release hostages. President Obama says that the payment, made in January, was actually part of a deal to resolve a decades-old arms dispute. “With the airplane coming in?”
Fox News anchor Bret Baier connected the dots between Abedini’s story and the $400 million payment, but also admitted the evidence is still “circumstantial”.
“It’s a military tape; it’s a tape that was a flawless angle, nice and steady, nobody getting nervous because they’re gonna be shot because they’re shooting a picture of money pouring off a plane”. It doesn’t matter what you believe or claim to believe, but what the criminals and terrorists see as the arrangement.
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US President Barack Obama talks about the war on terrorism and efforts to degrade and destroy the IS group. One of the released captives said they were waiting on the tarmac to take off, their plane ready to go, but were told they were waiting for arrival of another plane before they could leave. Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said on CNN she misspoke when she blamed Obama for the 2004 death of the Muslim-American soldier, Humayun Khan, during the Iraq war.
