Donald Trump on Friday morning admitted that he did not see footage of American cash being delivered to Iran after claiming at least twice that he saw video of the cash being unloaded off a plane.
The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2016
Trump claimed at a rally on Wednesday that he saw a video of the $400 million payment the United States made to Iran as it arrived in Iran. However, the Washington Post noted that the Republican nominee was likely referring to footage of American hostages arriving in Geneva after being freed from Iran. Fox News played the video from Geneva while reporting on the $400 million payment this week, the Post noted.
When asked by the Post, the Trump campaign said that the candidate was referring to the video from Geneva that played on news broadcasts this week. The Post reported the Trump campaign’s statement early Thursday morning.
But before admitting his mistake himself, Trump repeated the claim at rally on Thursday.
“It was interesting because a tape was made, you saw that? With the airplane coming in?” Trump asked at a rally in Maine, according to the Huffington Post. “Nice plane. And the airplane coming and the money coming off, I guess. That was given to us, has to be, by the Iranians.”
“And you know why the tape was given to us? Because they want to embarrass our country, and they want to embarrass our president,” he added.
Trump just has to be himself and BOOM, new ad possibility for Hillary’s campaign.
Trump will probably bill the Clinton campaign for ad creation.
If the debates do take place, Hillary needs to be armed with a can of Mace. This man is unstable.
If I didn’t have an abiding love for Fred Rogers, I’d suggest “Donald in the Land of Make Believe”. You know, he’s watching Fox News, hears “$400 million cash”, sees a picture of a plane, and then the scene goes all ripply and we emerge to his quotes about what he saw, so clearly, all that cash! the bags! the excellent camera work! the utter lack of papparazi!
Repeat from next event, where the edges soften just a bit “… I guess…”, then all ripply again and we’re back to the real world with Trump tweet, surprised trailing “!” and all.
I know this a different tack from his current course, but telling the truth won’t help him now.