Michael Davidson for Hillary for America (NEW YORK) – Hillary Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine, depicted GOP nominee Donald Trump as a man who is “absolutely” confused and called Trump’s claims about a video showing a plane full of American cash arriving in Iran “bogus”.
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His remarks on the issue came after the Wall Street Journal earlier this week reported the details of a $400 million payment the Obama administration sent to Iran in January, which it delivered in cash. “He recently criticized me saying I was a bad governor of New Jersey”.
In an interview with Fox Business’ Trish Regan, one of the American hostages released by the Iranian government January revealed that their plane wasn’t allowed to leave the country until another unspecified plane landed. “What I will say is that they have been told these are classified briefings”, he added, in response to a question about whether he was concerned about Trump obtaining the classified information.
“I have no idea what he’s talking about. It doesn’t exist. He might be thinking about Iran Contra from, like, 35 years ago or something like this”, Kaine said.
He pointed to Trump’s recent criticism of Kaine, who Trump said in a late-July news conference “did a awful job in New Jersey” – despite Kaine being a governor and senator from Virginia, not New Jersey.
Kaine said: “Perception is one thing, reality matters more”.
His team admitted it was incorrect, only for Mr Trump to repeat it at another rally.
“That was given to us, has to be, by the Iranians”. “That was given to us, has to be, by the Iranians”, he said. “The paparazzi doesn’t do so well over there, you know?” Right? You saw that with the airplane coming in.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump went on to recount for his supporters at a rally a video he said he had seen of how this money was handed over – all fiction, which he has since disavowed. “We didn’t here, and we won’t in the future, precisely because if we did we’d start encouraging Americans to be targeted”, said Obama Thursday. “They’re now on track to hit their target of 10,000 Syrian refugees this year through dangerously expediting their admission (which Hillary Clinton wants to increase by 550 percent)”. “Americans deserve a commander in chief who will fight to destroy hostile Islamic regimes, instead of paying them off as this president has done”.
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“If this report is true, it would only further prove that the Obama administration’s intentions in Iran are more than misguided – they are dishonorable”, Rooney said. Trump had said at a rally on Wednesday that “Iran provided all of that footage, the tape, of taking” $400 million in cash from the USA off a cargo plane.
