The State Department is still spinning hard, but now they are saying that they used this money we supposedly owed Iran as leverage to get the hostages released:
BREAKING: State Dept. says $400 million cash payment to Iran was contingent on American prisoners' release.
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 18, 2016
AP – The State Department says a $400 million cash payment to Iran was contingent on the release of American prisoners.
Spokesman John Kirby says negotiations over the United States’ returning Iranian money from a decades-old account was conducted separately from the prisoner talks. But he says the U.S. withheld delivery of the cash as leverage until the U.S. citizens had left Iran.
Both events occurred Jan. 17.
This is such bull. I’ll tell you how this really went down.
Iran knew that Obama was so weak that he would kowtow to their demands, especially after the horrible Iran deal, so they demanded lots of money for the release of the hostages. In order to make it not look like cash for hostages, Obama and his lackeys decided to use this old debt as cover so they could meet Iran’s demands without media backlash.
And here we are today with the Obama administration still pushing this cover story that everyone knows is garbage.
It’s like Obama is in court and the media is the jury. As long as Obama can create a reasonable doubt, the media will never find him guilty. All the while the citizens in the courtroom, watching the trial, know the truth and are screaming GUILTY!