Posted on 09/19/2023 6:55:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie ripped President Biden on his prisoner exchange deal with Iran, arguing “you cannot give $6 billion to a terrorist state.”
“I wouldn’t have made this deal,” Christie said Monday in an interview on CNN’s “The Source” with Kaitlan Collins. “As much as I would’ve liked those Americans to be home, you cannot give $6 billion to a terrorist state.
In exchange for the release of five wrongfully detained American prisoners, the White House’s agreement granted clemency to five Iranians and issued a blanket waiver for international banks to allow the transfer of $6 billion of Iranian oil sail proceeds, frozen in South Korea, to a bank in Qatar.
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“I believe it was Iran’s money so it’s not like we were handing them our tax dollars for ransom.”
“Their” money was going to be returned. Why NOW, while they BUILD the BOMB...?
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