Did Donald Trump Disclose Classified Information Today in Florida?

“I’ll never forget the scene this morning”
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In Donald Trump’s speech today in Daytona Beach, Florida, he told a strange convoluted story about seeing a video “this morning,” showing Iranian officials unloading cash from an airplane — a video I’ve never seen or previously heard about.

Now people are starting to ask whether Trump actually disclosed classified information from an intelligence briefing — just to make some political points at a campaign rally. Would you be surprised if he had?

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.

“I’ll never forget the scene this morning,” Trump told the crowd in Daytona Beach, Florida, of what he said he had watched. “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.

“Over there, where that plane landed, top secret, they don’t have a lot of paparazzi, you know,” Trump said. “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.” 

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. 

By the way, this so-called “secret $400 million payment” to Iran that the entire right wing universe is freaking out about today? It was actually openly announced by the White House in January of this year.

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