Mike Pence “Whole World” Knows $400M to Iran was “Ransom Payment”
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said Friday that while President Obama might claim otherwise, the whole world knows that a $400 million payment to Iran in January as American hostages were being released was a “ransom.”
“Most Americans are reeling this week with the news that the Obama administration delivered 400 million in cash to the mullahs in Iran on the very day that they released four hostages,” Mr. Pence, the GOP vice presidential nominee, said on NBC’s “Today” program.
“Now, the president … can say that that wasn’t a ransom payment, but the whole world knows that it was,” Mr. Pence said. “And in doing that, in a deal that Hillary Clinton actually initiated with the Iranian mullahs, this president and this administration have endangered the lives of every American on the world stage.”
President Obama said Thursday that the U.S. doesn’t pay ransom for hostages. The administration said at the time that Iran was getting a payment for a decades-old arms deal that hadn’t been completed.
Justice Department officials, though, objected to the timing, fearing it would look like a ransom payment, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“Donald Trump, the American people know, is going to provide the kind of leadership that we’re not going to have these kind of moments again on the world stage,” Mr. Pence said.
Asked about recent polls that show Mr. Trump trailing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Mr. Pence said it’s still “very early” in the campaign
The president and administration did not put Americans in harms way regarding this current ransom disbute…by continually airing and saying it was ransom money is the problem.
Sooner or later some nut job will believe it and guess what, American hostages might be taken, believing they will get a ransom. Some things should not be continuously televised, two in fact, this ransom dispute and anything pertaining to nuclear PERIOD. Remember this, UNITED States is what you’re called, please act it.
Canada does not want to be part of the negative fallout from any wars, be it civil or otherwise.
You are rediculous!!! Now that the dot head paid ransom to Iran THEY are the biggest threat to take more. Not rocket science. You are wrong this Hussein you voted for has not only put our country in danger but has thumbed his nose to OUR CONSTITUTION. You know this, your spewing crap