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Fact Checker
Trumps false claim that Clinton started the talks to give $400 million to Iran
By Glenn Kessler August 3 at 4:41 PM
Donald Trump. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Our incompetent secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, was the one who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran. Scandal!
tweet by Donald Trump, Aug. 3
The GOP presidential nominee jumped on an interesting report in the Wall Street Journal that the Obama administration shipped $400 million in cash to Iran at about the same time that four Americans being held in Iran were released after negotiations.
We will leave it up to readers to decide whether the facts warrant calling this some sort of ransom payment. But Trump is completely off-base about Clintons involvement.
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The Pinocchio Test
Trump is simply wrong that Clinton started the talks that led to the release of $400 million to Iran. She initiated the talks on Irans nuclear program, but thats as far as her involvement goes. Perhaps resolution of claims could not have been achieved without a deal on the nuclear issue, but thats going too far. Irans claim for the $400 million was made long before Clinton took office and was resolved after she left.
Four Pinocchios
glennward
(989 posts)was bad because it didn't include anything about releasing our hostages. He will soon realize that the money sent to Iran was their own money that had been frozen since the days of the Shah.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)don't they keep up with facts?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Lord Magus
(1,999 posts)But even he couldn't contort himself sufficiently to call this anything other than a total whopper.