It looks like the State Department is having a hard time explaining away the Obama administration’s payment of $400 million to Iran in exchange for the release of 4 captured Americans.
Of course, they deny that it was paid in order to secure the release of the hostages: they insist that the transfer of the money was merely the end result of a 40 year old deal meant to be made between the US and the Shah of Iran that got held up when he was overthrown and the Ayatollah took over.
It was precisely this point that State Department spokesperson John Kirby tried to sell on Fox News, but to little avail. It didn’t help that he referred to the payment not as a “ransom” but as “leverage” in order to get the Iranians to release the prisoners, basically undermining his and the entire administration’s narrative surrounding the incident.
Watch Kirby’s Fox News interview on the next page:
liar liar liar liar liar
We know what ransom is.
They dont know when to stop lying, that is the problem
This guy is an$#%&!@*!
John kerrys daughter is married to a muslim..
Boom
The power has been taken away from them by obama..he alters their reports
Attention Trumpkins! Real information will make you less stupid and vote in a way that will help you and your families maintain a good quality of life. Nobody wants yer gunz and nobody’s going to make you adhere to Sharia law or whatever other retarded$#%&!@*you learned on FOX or some page called the angry patriot Christian eagle. Pull your heads out of your asses and go outside and scrape those Trumper stickers off your pick up ltrucks! If you do it now your neighbors might forget that you supported this bigoted circus freak.
No question that it was a ransom – isn’t anyone else questioning where he got the money???? They are as guilty as obummer
HELLO AMERICAN PEOPLE…IF THEY PAY MONEY TO IRAN, THEN TELL THE IRANIANS TO RELEASE THE HOSTAGES, BEFORE WE(AMERICA) WILL GIVE THEM THE MONEY….WAKE UP, BECAUSE …$400 MILLION IN MONEY FOR HOSTAGES = RANSOM
leverage is the new word for ransom