4 Pinocchio's for #Trump’s claim that Clinton ‘started the talks’ to give $400mil to Iran

[riversedge]

I would love to throw a pie in his face!


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4 Pinocchio's for #Trump’s claim that Clinton ‘started the talks’ to give $400mil to Iran
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Fact Checker
Trump’s false claim that Clinton ‘started the talks’ to give $400 million to Iran


By Glenn Kessler August 3 at 4:41 PM

Donald Trump. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

“Our incompetent secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, was the one who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran. Scandal!”

— tweet by Donald Trump, Aug. 3

The GOP presidential nominee jumped on an interesting report in the Wall Street Journal that the Obama administration shipped $400 million in cash to Iran at about the same time that four Americans being held in Iran were released after negotiations.

We will leave it up to readers to decide whether the facts warrant calling this some sort of ransom payment. But Trump is completely off-base about Clinton’s involvement.
The Facts......................



The Pinocchio Test

Trump is simply wrong that Clinton started the talks that led to the release of $400 million to Iran. She initiated the talks on Iran’s nuclear program, but that’s as far as her involvement goes. Perhaps resolution of claims could not have been achieved without a deal on the nuclear issue, but that’s going too far. Iran’s claim for the $400 million was made long before Clinton took office — and was resolved after she left.
Four Pinocchios

[glennward]

1. Well, if she did, then Trump has to admire how smart she is becuase he was complaining that the deal

was bad because it didn't include anything about releasing our hostages. He will soon realize that the money sent to Iran was their own money that had been frozen since the days of the Shah.

[Thinkingabout]

4. Oh, no, not those nasty truth again, funny thing is the republicans have latched onto this one,

don't they keep up with facts?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Unfortunately for sure, he can say whatever lie he wants - press can't keep up nt

[Hoyt]

5. And his white wing supporters are ignorant and/or don't care whether it's true.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Actually I am waiting to have Trump blame Hillary for the dinosaurs being extinct.

[Lord Magus]

6. Bear in mind that Kessler bends over backwards to make his "fact checking" favorable to Repugs.

But even he couldn't contort himself sufficiently to call this anything other than a total whopper.

[riversedge]

7. Very true.