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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 05:37 PM Aug 2016

GOP Rep. Suggests $400M Payment Shows Obama Is Secret Agent For Iran

Source: Talking Points Memo

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said Wednesday that the U.S. airlifting $400 million to Iran shows President Barack Obama may be "playing for some other team."

In a statement about the "$400 million cash ransom," Zeldin wrote: "When deals like this are cut, one has to truly wonder whether the President has no idea what he is doing, or if he knows exactly what he is doing and is playing for some other team."

Zeldin, who has been a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, was taking a page from the real estate mogul's playbook. Trump has long pushed conspiracy theories about Obama and suggested just last month that the President is in league with Muslim terrorists.

The $400 million payment, which was airlifted the same day Iran released four long-held American prisoners in their custody, was touted as a major revelation this week even though the Obama administration disclosed it in January. Conservatives have charged the secret payment amounts to a point-blank quid pro quo, with the massive ransom pouring into coffers that back state-funded terrorism, while the administration says the repayment was from an incomplete arms deal dating back to 1979.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/lee-zeldin-obama-iran-secret-agent

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displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
4. Even FOX is no longer covering for these a$$holes.
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 06:10 PM
Aug 2016

It's going to get crazier and crazier until they figure out that without the Kochs and the wingnut echo chamber, they're just naked in the spotlight.

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mitty14u2

(1,015 posts)
7. Right Wing Media is Pushing the lies for Viewers and Listeners its total Propaganda BS
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 07:02 PM
Aug 2016


MSNBC Just Destroyed Trump’s $400 Million Iran Video Lie With One Word During Speech

By Jason Easley on Thu, Aug 4th, 2016 at 3:47 pm

Donald Trump tried to repeat his lie about the video showing $400 million being shipped to Iran during a speech in Maine, but he was fact checked in real time on screen by MSNBC. Donald Trump tried to repeat his lie about the video showing $400 million being shipped to Iran during a speech in Maine, but he was fact checked in real time on screen by MSNBC.

As Trump repeated his lie about seeing a video if $400 million being sent to Iran, here is what MSNBC showed over his remarks:

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/04/msnbc-destroyed-trumps-400-million-iran-video-lie-2-words-speech.html

The Right Wing Media is Pushing the lies for Viewers and Listeners, its total Propaganda BS that's all Trump has is lies and bewilderment but for some reason people like the Billionaire who hasnt stopped in a gas station or grocery store going back to collage, reality for him is a TV show...................
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