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Trump Backs Off False Iran Video Claim

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. · Friday, August 5th 2016 at 9:08AM · 1276 views
Donald Trump gives a detailed description of a video that doesn't exist during his rally speech in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Donald Trump has doubled down on a controversial claim from a day earlier that his own campaign had quickly admitted was a mistake.

He cited video footage during a rally Thursday in Portland, Maine, which he said showed $400 million in cash being offloaded in Iran on January 17.

The money was a payment from the Obama administration, made at the same time Tehran's mullahs released a group of hostages as part of a prisoner swap.

On Wednesday Trump's campaign quickly walked back his claim in a Daytona Beach, Florida rally about professional-quality video that Iranians had released to embarrass the U.S., admitting he had only seen 'b-roll' – archival footage – that showed the Americans emerging from a different aircraft in Geneva Switzerland.

But in Maine, Trump again insisted that the video he had described was real. His campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

'A tape was made, right? You saw that, with the plane coming in. Nice plane. And the airplane coming in. And the money coming off, I guess, right?' Trump asked a capacity crowd in a Portland theater.

'That was given to us – has to be – by the Iranians. And you know why the tape was given to us? They want to embarrass our country. And they want to embarrass our president. Because we have a president who's incompetent. They want to embarrass – they want to embarrass our president.'

'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.

'It's only for one reason, and it's very, very sad.'

On Wednesday, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks pointed DailyMail.com to a YouTube video of a morning broadcast from the Fox News Channel, saying the network's 'b-roll' is what her boss had watched earlier in the day.

That video, stamped 'January 17' – the day of the prisoner transfer – shows American nationals emerging from a plane in Geneva following their release from Iranian custody.

Contrary to Trump's claim, it was neither shot in Iran nor produced by Iranians.

Negotiators familiar with the deal had said they were not aware of any footage like Trump had described after his explosive claim about the payoff video.
Trump Backs Off False Iran Video Claim

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Comments (16)

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, August 5th 2016 at 9:27AM

Do Trump really understand that he had put his foot in his mouth again with this LIE?

Look at the people in the background as they eat up that LIE that Trump told them, are you one of those people?

All of this is coming out of his mouth and this is what the republican party leadership is worried about.

Steve Williams Friday, August 5th 2016 at 1:49PM

It was a payoff plain and simple. Anyone can see that.

Steve Williams Friday, August 5th 2016 at 1:50PM

One of the four hostages has confirmed it, didn't you hear?

Steve Williams Friday, August 5th 2016 at 1:53PM

What's wrong with these liberals? Jimmy Carter is why we had Reagan! Our hostages were held for how many days Ron? We kept their damn money why Ron? Damn!

Steve Williams Friday, August 5th 2016 at 1:56PM

37 years, then magically it's resovled on the very day the (latest) hostages are released. Uh huh.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, August 5th 2016 at 3:13PM

What is the matter Steven, you don't believe The truck campaign?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, August 5th 2016 at 4:13PM

What is the matter Steven, you don't believe The trump campaign.

Steve Williams Friday, August 5th 2016 at 4:28PM

I believe the fact, it was ransom.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, August 5th 2016 at 9:25PM

What is the matter Steven, you don't believe The Trump campaign? in the second paragraph in this article, f you missed it. Trump own campaign had quickly admitted was a mistake. NO! I say he LIED about.







Steve Williams Friday, August 5th 2016 at 10:38PM

What Trump thought he saw or said he saw on a video played on TV, didn't put Americans at risk. A $400 million ransom payment did.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Friday, August 5th 2016 at 11:10PM

Why don't you believe Trump own campaign had quickly admitted was a mistake?

Steve Williams Friday, August 5th 2016 at 11:47PM

I haven't paid any attention to what the campaign said about the ransom. My concern is about the ransom itself.

robert powell Saturday, August 6th 2016 at 10:27AM


Trump Backs Off False Iran Video Claim

SUBJECT

Mr. Trump can READ and view Videos of President Baraaka Hussein Obama OVER a year ago EXPLAINING that an arms deal of NIXON....was NEVER completed and Iran $$ didn't get arms....and was OWED

but LYIN 'biaWhiteMan' writes .... ransom... and continues Disrespect of African Americans with.....

".....My concern is about the ransom itself....."
Friday, August 5th 2016 at 11:47PM
Steve Williams

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take your LYIN ebolaISM to some LYIN racistlyIgnorant wwweb site......

Steve Williams Saturday, August 6th 2016 at 11:14AM

The Shah was no longer there to give the money back to. No other President before now even considered giving it "back".

Steve Williams Saturday, August 6th 2016 at 11:19AM

The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. 52 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) after a group of Iranian students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who supported the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.[1]

The crisis was described by the Western media as an "entanglement" of "vengeance and mutual incomprehension."[2] President Jimmy Carter called the hostages "victims of terrorism and anarchy" and said, "The United States will not yield to blackmail."[3] In Iran, it was widely seen as a blow against the United States and its influence in Iran, including its perceived attempts to undermine the Iranian Revolution and its longstanding support of the recently overthrown Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had led an autocratic regime.

After his overthrow in 1979, the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was purportedly admitted to the United States for cancer treatment. Iran demanded that he be returned to stand trial for crimes he was accused of committing during his reign. Specifically, Pahlavi was accused of committing crimes against Iranian citizens with the help of his secret police, the SAVAK. Iranians saw the decision to grant him asylum as American complicity in those atrocities. The Americans saw the hostage-taking as an egregious violation of the principles of international law, which granted diplomats immunity from arrest and made diplomatic compounds inviolable.[4][5][6][7]

The crisis reached a climax when, after failed efforts to negotiate the hostages' release, the United States military attempted a rescue operation using ships, including the USS Nimitz and USS Coral Sea, that were patrolling the waters near Iran. On April 24, 1980, the attempt, known as Operation Eagle Claw, failed, resulting in the deaths of eight American servicemen and one Iranian civilian, as well as the destruction of two aircraft. Documents dated two weeks before the operation claim that the American national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, discussed an invasion of Iran through Turkish bases and territory, though this plan was never executed.[8][9]

Shah Pahlavi left the United States in December 1979 and was ultimately granted asylum in Egypt, where he died from complications of cancer on July 27, 1980. In September 1980, the Iraqi military invaded Iran, beginning the Iran–Iraq War. These events led the Iranian government to enter negotiations with the U.S., with Algeria acting as a mediator. The hostages were formally released into United States custody the day after the signing of the Algiers Accords, just minutes after the new American president, Ronald Reagan, was sworn into office.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Saturday, August 6th 2016 at 7:02PM

(November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981) Not under Obama's watch. Steven, this is just one of the reasons why Trump backed off and ran away from this LIE he told, can't you see that STEVEN?



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