Donald Trump is at it again. In a recent tweet by Trump this morning, he attacked Hillary and the Obama administration over a report that the US sent $400 million to Iran.
Our incompetent Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was the one who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran. Scandal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2016
The U.S. delivered the cash early this year, which included Euros and Swiss francs to Iran as stacks of bills in an unmarked cargo plane. It is illegal to do business with Iran in U.S. dollars. This coincided with the four Americans who were in the final stages of their release from Iranian prison, according the Wall Street Journal.
“The logistics of this payment — literally delivering a plane full of cash to evade U.S. law — shows yet again the extraordinary lengths the Obama administration will go to accommodate Iran, all while hiding the facts from Congress and the American people,” Republican Ed Royce, the head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement.
Department spokesman John Kirby said, “Not only were the two negotiations separate, they were conducted by different teams on each side, including, in the case of The Hague claims, by technical experts involved in these negotiations for many years,” referring to the international court that oversaw the settlement deal.
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