2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrump gets nomination, gets access to classified intel, shares "military tape" info at FL rally.
What's wrong with this picture?The "$400 million airlifted to Iran" thing.
His vivid description raised questions about whether he disclosed classified material.
08/03/2016 07:12 pm ET | Updated 9 hours ago
Donald Trump on Wednesday described vivid details from a video he said he had watched earlier in the day of Iranian officials unloading cash from an airplane. The money was part of a payment, announced earlier this year, from the U.S. to Iran to settle a decades-old dispute over an incomplete weapons sale.
Ill never forget the scene this morning, Trump told the crowd in Daytona Beach, Florida, of what he said he had watched. Iran ― I dont think youve heard this anywhere but here ― Iran provided all of that footage, the tape, of taking that money off that airplane.
Over there, where that plane landed, top secret, they dont have a lot of paparazzi, you know, Trump said. The paparazzi doesnt 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. Its a military tape. Its a tape that was a perfect angle, nice and steady.
No publicly available video matches what Trump described. This raises the possibility that Trump was either fabricating the contents of a non-existent video, or he was disclosing information to which he has newly been granted access.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Jerry442
(1,265 posts)Bullshit he makes up could be even more damaging to the world than true classified stuff he blabs.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Not anything classified or top secret.
He is just a moron.
Javaman
(62,516 posts)it's going to get really interesting now.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)broadcast almost immediately. He can't help it. He has NO CONTROL.
sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)publicly released video of hostages leaving a plane.
cynzke
(1,254 posts)Iran returned the five American hostages and the US RETURNED seven Iranians WE WERE HOLDING.
GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)cynzke
(1,254 posts)IronLionZion
(45,421 posts)Are we going to have lots of congressional hearings and investigations into this?
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... he saw a video on Twitter from one of his moronic followers who lied about what was being shown.
cynzke
(1,254 posts)HERE IS WHERE THE CONFUSION STARTS. Dummy Trump sees a video (MILITARY TAPE) in a security briefing. The FLIGHT was secret for security purposes. The ACTUAL payment WAS NOT SECRET. BECAUSE Trump sees the VIDEO in this briefing , he ASSUMED this MUST BE a SECRET transaction the Obama Admin. carried out without knowledge of Congress and the public. SO then he goes BLABBING his FALSE conclusion, OBSESSED with using this to attack Hillary. And because Trump was probably TOLD this delivery is TIED with the first steps the US was taking in the agreement reached with Iran, late last summer, he JUMPED TO THE CONCLUSION that HILLARY was involved. But hey, we know Trump is not sharp on facts or details. So Trump is briefed and totally MISCONSTRUES what he was briefed on and with in hours EAGERLY shares his mistaken conclusion, whipping it into a shit storm, trying to turn this into a scandal. But again, this PAYMENT was not a secret ransom payment that took place in January and ONLY NOW is being revealed. A State Department ANNOUNCEMENT BY JOHN KERRY was released on January 17th. to the PUBLIC concerning this payment. The Admin. didn't hide this at all. And some media picked it up and reported it AT REAL TIME. The REAL issue here is that Donald Trump was briefed and managed to MISCONSTRUE that info. If he was unable to FULLY understand the intel given, how can we trust him on future briefing as POTUS. We know that INTEL is not precise. It, many times is IFFY or incomplete and a President needs the intelligence to UNDERSTAND/discern that, not go off on a dangerous tangent because they misconstrue what they were provided. We know Bush had this problem leading us down the path to an unnecessary war. One thing more that Donald Trump doesn't know about this. The money was not a RANSOM PAYMENT. The American hostages were released IN EXCHANGE for Iranians WE WERE HOLDING. A SEPARATE mutual agreement to SWAP our detainees for their hostages.
http://m.state.gov/md251338.htm
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)is that you sign a confidentiality agreement , and this agreement states that you will not disclose "any" information.
If you do disclose this information you are subject to a fine and imprisonment.
Why may you ask, because of the security clearance for the job--------------------simple.
Apparently this treasonous narcissistic jerk "dude" fascists thinks that he is above the law.
And guess what the MSM, is not reporting it like this, they are having it on there Chyron, that it was a hostage payment with a big old question mark behind it ----------------that is just irresponsible and out right false.
And to add insult to this non journalistic frame work, have or has anyone noticed that since the Khan family incident on what this five deferment draft dodger fascists did, by besmirching this family, and it has now become a non news item in the MSM, which is irrepressible in it's logic and responsibility and there business model frame work. They should be holding the republican feet to the fire and this hypocrites feet to the fire-------------until there heads explode, where is the apology?
(Because if it had been a democrat, we would be hearing about it on the morning, afternoon and nightly news and segments until the election, or in this case until the cows come home, but now they, the MSM are starting to give this draft dodger a pass).
We the public have not heard one word on were the democratic nominee was until yesterday, when she made comments in a clothing manufactures business in Colorado, on the why the draft dodger made his ties in china instead of in Colorado for about five minutes and then that was it-------------------talk about a lack of fair and balanced. Five minutes in air time compared to 16 hours for a fascists.
All the public is hearing is how the F***king republican party is supposedly jumping ship and they are trying to figure how to say that they are still with this right wing hypocrite, while not specifically owning to the fact that this hypocrite is an albatross around there neck,and that down ticket candidates are now in trouble, guess what, you can distance yourself until you turn whatever color of red that you like, while your right wing agenda head explodes, as far as I am concern, but he, his your leader and he represents your party ( he owns you and your own him) and this is the final conclusion of 45 years of hate and fear coming home to roost, since good old Ronnie Reagan started his racist campaign down in Philadelphia, Mississippi as an extension of the Goldwater and Nixon southern strategy.
The MSM created this jerk and gave him a "free pass" and they are still giving him a "free pass, just look when they show him the bottom corner during a rally, while they are reporting the news from a talking head republican on a the "show" explaining the what if's of this racist bigoted fascists fraud and what and why the republicans are pulling there hair out ---------------who cares!
How many times have we seen the democratic nominee given that same courtesy ----------not much
Honk---------------for a political revolution
raven mad
(4,940 posts)just a few days after taking office.
But we won't let that happen.