DRUDGE REPORT @DRUDGE_REPORT 4h4 hours ago
FORMER HOSTAGE SAYS PLANE WAITED UNTIL MONEY ARRIVED...
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‘Win-lose deal that benefits Iran and hurts United States’...
Posted on 08/05/2016 9:01:19 AM PDT by maggief
In what has emerged as the latest scandal involving Donald Trump, the presidential candidate on Friday retracted a statement that he had seen a video on TV of a plane carrying $400 million in cash to Iran, money which as the WSJ reported earlier this week was allegedly made as a ransom payment to free 4 US hostages held by Iran. The statement was a rare reversal of comments he made on the campaign trail earlier this week.
“The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!” Trump tweeted.
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However, as the Washington Examiner notes, after those comments, the Trump campaign told The Washington Post that the tape Mr. Trump had seen was b-roll footage that’s been labeled as American hostages landing in Geneva in January after being released from prison. But Mr. Trump said again Thursday in Maine that he guessed the footage was of the money transfer.
(snip)
So Trump did what he has rarely done before: he backed down.
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And then, just as Trump was retracting his claims, something curious happened.
Overnight, the BBC reported that a video did indeed exist, referring to a documentary called "The Rules of the Game" which was broadcast on Iranian state TV in February. In the clip, one can see shots of an airport are accompanied by commentary which references 17 January in Tehran's Mehrabad Airport.
Specifically, the video shows a loaded crate, partially blurred out, which allegedly shows the money in question.
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Yes, he is, and it is going to get much, much worse.
It’s going to be a high speed avalanche of total hysteria until Super Granny is properly installed.
No matter what Trump says the MSM will make a story about a non story. Why do you think Hillary is never mixing it up with MSM?
Trump could say Good Morning and the MSM would say hysterically. “It’s evening in Moscow. Don’t you know what time it is in Moscow? Trump is a know nothing about foreign affairs. He is unfit to be POTUS!”
hmmmm.....so why is it being portrayed as the ransom plane? The media are a detestable bunch of liars.
“Trump could develop a cure for cancer, and it would end up being a negative story...”
Precisely. Trump could take a stroll across the East river, and the MSM (coordinated) headlines: “Trump Can’t Swim!”
The really discouraging thing is seeing slack-jawed yokels, even here on FR serving-up and swallowing this swill.
That detail was unimportant until Trump relied on a false impression the media gave him.
About 47% have.
It’s way more than that.
> We’re reacting, and it’s killing us.
I would be a smart move tactically for DJT to step back from twitter etc and concentrate on driving DJT’s narrative and not respond to MediaPAC’s narrative, which shifts from one position to another to harry like swarming gnats. Use twitter etc solely to drive DJT’s narrative and never to respond to anything.
whatever
Actually, I think Trump is doing better than most of us could with the hectic whirlwind campaigning that he has done for over a year.
If it were me doing that, I would probably require a SWAT team around me to keep people safe.
Donald J. Trump Retweeted
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