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:
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How Can This Guy Sleep @ Night ?
I’ve got a real problem with these assholes trying to “spin” their way out of this mess, by continuing to come up with BS explanation after another, they are basically saying the American people are stupid and if we keep pitching a lie they will start believing it!!!!
This should have been a slam dunk impeachment for Obama, since Congress hasn’t done a damn thing, it tells me they never will!!!
He slept with dogs, every square inch of him is covered with fleas.
Read this
And they are suppose to be the smart ones?
further proof that pretty much every one of our elected officials is a complete jackass
This guy is a complete idiot.
Now he is lying to the American people and risking his life’s work for a piece of s**t
Send in the Clowns, don’t BOTHER, they’re already here…