They’re using a ‘technicality’ on us. We didn’t exactly give them $150B of US money, instead we freed up $150B of Iranian assets that Jimmy Carter had frozen.
Either way, overnight they had $150B more dough to play with...so the effect is the same. That is about 2 years worth of oil production for Iran, some serious money for them.
When IRAN held 52 Americans Hostage for 444 days this money should have been FORFEITED to the US long ago as compensation for the illegal confinement.
Why did that money sit for 35 years and where did it sit that Obama could just “free” it up for his use with Iran?
EXACTLY!
Clintonian Parsing at work here.
You have to diagram every word these filthy fatherless SOB's utter.
And remember - the cargo plane load of "cash" wasn't all USA currency.
It was a mixture of US Dollars and foreign currencies.
The muslim terrorist's impostor in the White House paid off big for Iran.
Barack Obama screwed the US txpayer out of almost $900 billion going into office (the "Stimulus").
And he screwed us out of another $150 billion or more on his way out of office.
Not to mention the hundreds of millions in weapons and "aid" he was able to slip to muslim terrorists during the 8 miserable years he polluted the White House.
And I have always wondered how much of that $900 billion "Stimulus" money ended up in various secret foreign bank accounts belonging to Obama and other top demopcrats.
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Was just going to point this out...
Kerry is playing semantics to hide his treason.
As usual.
In his statement, Trump said “made available,” not “give.”
As you point out, the details have secondary importance, “the effect is the same.” Iran obtained financial resources that it would not have had but for Obama administration action.
Many EU countries have been subsidizing Iran’s proxy terrorism too.
“...instead we freed up $150B of Iranian assets that Jimmy Carter had frozen.”
Most of us were aware of that, but the money was freed up and GIVEN to a terrorist regime.
They’re using a ‘technicality’ on us. We didn’t exactly give them $150B of US money, instead we freed up $150B of Iranian assets that Jimmy Carter had frozen.
Either way, overnight they had $150B more dough to play with...so the effect is the same. That is about 2 years worth of oil production for Iran, some serious money for them.
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that “payload” of 140-150-bb (depending on where you hear it) was also framed as the product of compound interest accrued on the Iranian assets Jimmah had frozen.
which iirc, was a piddling amount of 10 bb or so.