It looks like the State Department is having a hard time explaining away the Obama administration’s payment of $400 million to Iran in exchange for the release of 4 captured Americans.
Of course, they deny that it was paid in order to secure the release of the hostages: they insist that the transfer of the money was merely the end result of a 40 year old deal meant to be made between the US and the Shah of Iran that got held up when he was overthrown and the Ayatollah took over.
It was precisely this point that State Department spokesperson John Kirby tried to sell on Fox News, but to little avail. It didn’t help that he referred to the payment not as a “ransom” but as “leverage” in order to get the Iranians to release the prisoners, basically undermining his and the entire administration’s narrative surrounding the incident.
Watch Kirby’s Fox News interview on the next page:
More libtard word twisting
omg—- the AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT STUPID!!!! We know what RANSOM is and WE THE PEOPLE ARE PI%$#ed !!!!
I love all the transparency from the Obama administration….NOT!!
Obama should be put in front of a firing squad for treason for stealing the taxpayers money and giving it to terrorists God Bless America God bless Trump
THEN WHY WAS IT RELATED TO THE 1979 IRAN/CONTRA PAYOFF ?? THOSE WERE FUNDS THAT WERE HELD TILL NOW
Is that anything like what the definition of is is?
Oh, WE know what ransom is. Do you?
why don’t they quit lying, they know it for funding the terriorist.
Leverage= Ransom same same.
so you owe me 1 million dollars you FUCKS,