(01-09-2020, 04:13 PM)rollerjag Wrote:

(01-08-2020, 03:51 PM)Gabe Wrote: Considering Trump referenced it yet again this morning and it's been a constant talking point of the right since he came into office, I'd like to point out two inaccuracies: 

• No $150b payout ever occurred. Iran's previously frozen assets were released as part of the multinational agreement signed in 2015 as a result of Iran committing to restrain their nuclear development program. It was theirs to begin with. 
  
• $400m was transferred from the US Treasury (with the understanding that another $1.4b in interest would be paid later) as an IOU from the 1970s - one where we never made good on paying for military equipment because of Iran's instability at the time. 
  

Regardless, I have no doubt they're now using those funds to develop weapons.

Not surprised this was ignored by our resident Trumpettes. Trump cannot make a speech without lying, and it often has something to do with Obama.

If the Left has TDS, Trump certainly has ODS.

The source of the money is not the issue. The problems lies in the fact an agreement was made to relinquish $150B dollars to the PREMIER sponsor of worldwide terror. You and Gabe know, as well as everyone else, that Americans were killed and maimed using cash from that very pallet.  What's worse, Obama and every nation which agreed to that idiotic deal were well aware that would happen.
But as long as you can fit the pejorative "Trumpettes" into a disparaging sentence, then it was all worth it, right?

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