Did Donald Trump Disclose Classified Information Today in Florida?
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.
.@Reince “secretly gave Iranians $400M”?
Here’s the White House press briefing from 1/19 literally announcing it pic.twitter.com/rr9uHcg3bA— Adam Khan (@Khanoisseur) August 3, 2016