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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAP FACT CHECK: Trump off base on Clinton and Iran payment
WASHINGTON (AP) Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says his Democratic opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was responsible for negotiations that led to a $400 million U.S. payment to Iran. Reacting to a Wall Street Journal story published Wednesday that described the delivery of the cash to Tehran in January, Trump accused Clinton on Twitter of having opened talks to give Iran the money.
Trump expanded on his remarks later, saying the money was a ransom payment for four Americans detained in Iran, that Iran released a video of the cash being unloaded from a plane in Tehran and that Iran only released a group of U.S. sailors it had captured in the Persian Gulf because it was about to be paid. These claims range from the incorrect to the unsupported.
TRUMP, in a tweet Wednesday: "Our incompetent Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was the one who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran. Scandal!"
THE FACTS: Trump is wrong about Clinton's involvement. The $400 million payment plus $1.3 billion in interest to be paid later is a separate issue from the Iran nuclear deal that Clinton initiated. The process that resulted in the payout started decades before she became secretary of state.
Trump expanded on his remarks later, saying the money was a ransom payment for four Americans detained in Iran, that Iran released a video of the cash being unloaded from a plane in Tehran and that Iran only released a group of U.S. sailors it had captured in the Persian Gulf because it was about to be paid. These claims range from the incorrect to the unsupported.
TRUMP, in a tweet Wednesday: "Our incompetent Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was the one who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran. Scandal!"
THE FACTS: Trump is wrong about Clinton's involvement. The $400 million payment plus $1.3 billion in interest to be paid later is a separate issue from the Iran nuclear deal that Clinton initiated. The process that resulted in the payout started decades before she became secretary of state.
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AP FACT CHECK: Trump off base on Clinton and Iran payment (Original Post)
spanone
Aug 2016
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B Calm
(28,762 posts)1. OMG, USA gives back Iran it's own money. .
agingdem
(7,865 posts)2. Missing the point
Trump is spewing what he was told in a security briefing
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)4. I've read he's not getting those yet
Do you know that to be false? Also, the President decides what's in those briefings.
agingdem
(7,865 posts)8. the mouth that roared
Huffingtonpost.com...Code Red...
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)9. That doesn't answer my question
WHERE are you reading he's currently getting security briefings?
Kingofalldems
(38,496 posts)5. Really? Got a link on that?
Gothmog
(145,666 posts)3. Trump is lying about this issue
spanone
(135,900 posts)6. as he lies about most issues.
Stinky The Clown
(67,831 posts)7. Trump is Lying. Trump Lies. Trump Lies All The Time.
Liar. Liar. Liar.