It looks like the State Department is having a hard time explaining away the Obama administration’s payment of $400 million to Iran in exchange for the release of 4 captured Americans.
Of course, they deny that it was paid in order to secure the release of the hostages: they insist that the transfer of the money was merely the end result of a 40 year old deal meant to be made between the US and the Shah of Iran that got held up when he was overthrown and the Ayatollah took over.
It was precisely this point that State Department spokesperson John Kirby tried to sell on Fox News, but to little avail. It didn’t help that he referred to the payment not as a “ransom” but as “leverage” in order to get the Iranians to release the prisoners, basically undermining his and the entire administration’s narrative surrounding the incident.
Watch Kirby’s Fox News interview on the next page:
There is only one definition of Ransom.
ran·som
ˈransəm/Submit
noun
1.
a sum of money or other payment demanded or paid for the release of a prisoner.
Freaking IDIOT!!!!
Liar, liar, you TRAITOR! You condone treason! You are a NOTHING!!! A worthless blob consuming oxygen!
I don’t see how this guy can sleep at night, shameful the number of lies he has to tell
It is no ransom …. It is Obama’s retirement 401K fund which will be transferred to Obama’s Family Foundation by Iran next January 20, 2017 when he is kicked out of the White House ….
Thanks to Obummer, Iran’s kidnapping business is booming.
It just looks like ransom… RIGHT
Omg. We arent stupid.
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How much proof u need, obummer should have been impeached the day he took office, now 8 years down the tubes, doubled the dept, hates America, come on congress impeach this traiter