Trump, in rare admission, notes mistake on Iran video

But Abedini’s release became more controversial this week when a Wall Street Journal piece accused the Obama administration of paying a de facto ransom for the prisoners in the form of a $400 million cash payment delivered by plane the same day.

The account comes amid controversy over a $400 million payment the Obama administration made to Iran when the American prisoners were released.

In January, Mr. Obama referred to the resolution of the Y 1979 arms dispute without disclosing the $400-M cash payment by saying that “with the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well”.

Trump described the video of the supposed transfer in detail to the crowd at the Florida rally, although officials later said there was no such footage.

His spokeswoman said Wednesday night that Trump had mistaken a grainy video that has played repeatedly on Fox News for footage of a money transfer between the two governments in Iran.

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”. And they have a flawless tape.

“And remember this: 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, right?”

On the campaign trail this week, the Republican nominee has been dramatically describing a video that he says shows the US paying off Iran as part of a deal to release USA sailors from Iranian custody. Trump’s tweet acknowledged his mistake although it came after he claimed at two different rallies that he’d seen video of a cash delivery to Iran. The administration. meanwhile, insists that the payment was money the USA legally owed Iran. “They want to embarrass – they want to embarrass our president”.

“The Islamic Republic added an expensive offer to the equation: the release of seven Iranian prisoners in the United States, $1.7 billion, and the lifting of sanctions against 16 Iranians who were prosecuted by the USA legal system with the unjust excuse of sanctions violations”. Trump had connected that money exchange to the release of four hostages from Tehran, which occurred around the same time in January.

“You know, it was interesting because a tape was made”. And the airplane coming in and the money coming off, I guess, right? “Because they want to embarrass our country, they want to embarrass our country”. They want to embarrass our country.

This is nearly redundant in a way because we know that the Iranians viewed Obama’s dirty smuggled cash as a ransom payment.

Kaine, though, also knocked Trump appearing to confuse the former Virginia governor with the former governor of New Jersey.