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:
stupid as he looks
Impeach Obama
Shame on him for lying. He should quit that job.
If donild was pres he wood bild a wall like he did for these floods in texas!!!
Stop you only sound more stupid as you try to make up your new definition of the word.
“proof” “ransom” “conspiracy theory” “debunked”
Ransom,no matter how you try to spin it it still comes out as ransom .
Obama is and has been the Rotten Apple in the American basket.
Everything he touches goes bad.
This guy was a joke for the Defense Dept and still is for State. How does he sleep at night?
We call that randsom fool!