On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. had secretly paid the Iranians $400 million in various currencies around January at the same time that Iran released four Americans held in Tehran.

Trump said he watched it unfold.

“I’ll never forget the scene this morning,” Trump told the crowd on Wednesday. “Iran—I don’t think you’ve heard this anywhere but here—Iran provided all of that footage, the tape, of taking that money off that airplane.”


There is just one problem. The U.S. had no way to directly deliver cold hard currency to Iran. Rather, the pallets referred to in the Journal piece traveled to Switzerland and the money was eventually transferred to Iran. That is, no pallets ever landed in Iran, a U.S. official told The Daily Beast.

Fit.. uhm... not sure about that:

Video w/article

I will be the first to admit, be very careful about taking this at face value, as it's a very fuzzy picture... and you have to consider the source (it's an Iranian station), at 11 minutes and 3 seconds in.. there's pallets of something.

Quote:Now, we don’t know where Donald Trump might have caught the clip of the video, but we do know it was widely discussed several months ago when the hostages were released. The Iranian TV ran it with a title “The Rules of The Game” etc. We saw it on BBC TV during a segment discussing the release of the prisoners.

Let me see now. Obama paid a cash ransom for Americans captured by Iran in opposition to longstanding US policy and then had members of his administration lie about it when questioned and lied about it himself when questioned yesterday. But the BIG STORY is that Trump lied about possibly seeing a video.

(08-05-2016 11:57 AM)TheDancinMonarch Wrote:  Let me see now. Obama paid a cash ransom for Americans captured by Iran in opposition to longstanding US policy and then had members of his administration lie about it when questioned and lied about it himself when questioned yesterday. But the BIG STORY is that Trump lied about possibly seeing a video.

In the world of sensationaiism, Monarch.. yep.. Someone on one of my radio stations yesterday basically said.. (because of stories like this)

"We have to have the most idiotic "educated" populace in the world".

another fit fail!

Dude, one of the hostages said they were held on the tarmac for two hours, and were told they were waiting for a plane to land.

(08-05-2016 11:57 AM)TheDancinMonarch Wrote:  Let me see now. Obama paid a cash ransom for Americans captured by Iran in opposition to longstanding US policy and then had members of his administration lie about it when questioned and lied about it himself when questioned yesterday. But the BIG STORY is that Trump lied about possibly seeing a video.

media sleight of hand ...
now you see it ...

NOW YOU DON'T

(08-05-2016 11:37 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. had secretly paid the Iranians $400 million in various currencies around January at the same time that Iran released four Americans held in Tehran.

Trump said he watched it unfold.

“I’ll never forget the scene this morning,” Trump told the crowd on Wednesday. “Iran—I don’t think you’ve heard this anywhere but here—Iran provided all of that footage, the tape, of taking that money off that airplane.”


There is just one problem. The U.S. had no way to directly deliver cold hard currency to Iran. Rather, the pallets referred to in the Journal piece traveled to Switzerland and the money was eventually transferred to Iran. That is, no pallets ever landed in Iran, a U.S. official told The Daily Beast.

Let's pretend for a moment. Everything you posted is true.

What lie did Trump tell?

Could Trump have been right? Propaganda film suggests Iran DID videotape cash-drop plane and photograph shipment of cash during January prisoner swap http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-swap.html