U.S. Officials Literally Laughing at Donald Trump’s ‘Top Secret’ Iran Video Claim

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U.S. national security officials are literally laughing at Donald Trump’s claim that he watched a “top secret” Iranian-military produced video showing its government scurrying to grab palettes filled with hundreds of millions of dollars.

“It didn’t happen,” one U.S. official said. “That was not part of any briefing.”
The other just chuckled at the proposition.

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. had secretly paid the Iranians $400 million in various currencies around January at the same time that Iran released four Americans held in Tehran.
Trump said he watched it unfold.

“I’ll never forget the scene this morning,” Trump told the crowd on Wednesday. “Iran—I don’t think you’ve heard this anywhere but here—Iran provided all of that footage, the tape, of taking that money off that airplane.”

There is just one problem. The U.S. had no way to directly deliver cold hard currency to Iran. Rather the palettes referred to in the Journal piece traveled to Switzerland and the money was eventually transferred to Iran. That is, no palettes ever landed in Iran, a U.S. official told the Daily Beast.
And yet on Wednesday, while speaking to a crowd in Daytona Beach, Florida, Trump said he watched video filmed by the Iranian military in an effort to “embarrass” the United States.

“Over there, where that plane landed, top secret, they don’t have a lot of paparazzi, you know,” Trump explained. “The paparazzi doesn’t do so well over there.” But “they have a perfect tape, obviously done by a government camera, and the tape is of the people taking the money off the plane. It’s a military tape. It’s a tape that was a perfect angle, nice and steady.”

Trump did not mention the tape in a second speech that day in Jacksonville.

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Well, it turns out he saw it on TV. Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks admitted to the Washington Post that footage Trump was referring to was not, in fact, top secret. It was b-roll from a Fox News segment.

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This fat, bald loser just can't stop lying. Pants on fire again Donald. Please just stop. Stop embarrassing yourself and the country. It's time for an intervention by the "sensible" children. Again.

[Iliyah]

1. Shakes head and realizes that a lot of Evangelist supports him.

[Koinos]

2. Intervention in the form of a muzzle.

[C_U_L8R]

3. I've heard about Compulsive Liars

But don't think I've truly seen one until now.
Trump not only lies about anything, he lies about everything.
It's like he's got some kind of insecure disorder that compels
him to embellish, distort, fabricate and deceive. One thing's for sure,
the folks with the butterfly nets are gonna need a bigger truck...

[dhill926]

4. he's like that Jon Lovitz character...

on SNL.

[underpants]

5. I don't think he has the attention span to realize what he is watching

and yes he is a flat out liar.