> Pompeo repeats ‘zombie’ claim that Obama gave Iran $150 billion

#1 2021-09-21 18:27:20

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics … 0-billion/

At the Fact Checker, we are always dismayed when we encounter what we call a “zombie" claim — a falsehood that persists no matter how often we debunk it.

But it’s especially dismaying when a former secretary of state repeats this claim. Pompeo obviously spent too much time listening to his former boss, President Donald Trump, who often said a version of this claim at his campaign rallies. But policy details were never Trump’s expertise. As a former chief U.S. diplomat, Pompeo should know better. Instead, he has uttered a mishmash that is especially misleading.

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Here’s what happened. In the 1970s, the then-pro-Western Iranian government under the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, had paid $400 million for U.S. military equipment. But the equipment was never delivered because the two countries broke off relations after the seizure of American hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Iran. An initial payment of $400 million was handed over on Jan. 17, 2016, the day after Iran released detainees. Two other payments totaling $1.3 billion — a negotiated agreement on the interest owed on the $400 million — came some weeks later.

That’s the “pallets of cash” Pompeo mentions, along with an official named Brett McGurk who now handles Middle East policy at the Biden White House. McGurk had negotiated the release of the detainees, but he’s an experienced foreign-policy maven who also worked for Presidents George W. Bush and Trump — until he quit over Trump’s announcement that he would withdraw troops from Syria.

#2 2021-09-21 18:33:44

Utter shyt.  Totally false claim, those claiming to have 'debunked' are in fact enemy propaganda disseminators. Like the op. Filth. Enemy combatants.

#3 2021-09-21 18:39:44

So Obama gave them 1.7 billion.  Got it.

Thanks for clearing that up phildo.

#4 2021-09-21 18:44:09

 wrote:So Obama gave them 1.7 billion.  Got it.

Thanks for clearing that up phildo.
$1.7 billion is a little different than $150 billion.

Do you think that a Secretary of State should know the difference?

And, Obama didn't give them anything. It was their money.

#5 2021-09-21 18:50:43

Phillip_McCavity wrote:$1.7 billion is a little different than $150 billion.

Do you think that a Secretary of State should know the difference?

And, Obama didn't give them anything. It was their money.
It's a large difference, maybe he misspoke like Biden does daily?

He released their money to them.  One could say "he gave it to them" since the US was withholding it.  This is a pattern with you.  You don't worry about facts, you worry about narrative.  In case you have noticed, your narrative is collapsing every week.

#6 2021-09-21 18:53:10

Is the Jared Kushner peace deal not working as planned?

#7 2021-09-21 18:58:45

 wrote:It's a large difference, maybe he misspoke like Biden does daily?

He released their money to them.  One could say "he gave it to them" since the US was withholding it.  This is a pattern with you.  You don't worry about facts, you worry about narrative.  In case you have noticed, your narrative is collapsing every week.
Off by 100x?

Well, at least he didn't suggest injecting bleach.

#8 2021-09-21 19:01:23

Phillip_McCavity wrote:Off by 100x?

Well, at least he didn't suggest injecting bleach.
Another libbie lie.

#9 2021-09-22 20:21:05

Pompeo repeats ‘zombie’ claim that Obama gave Iran $150 billion
Kind of like you repeating the bleach claim huh? Should we make it a capital offense?

#10 2021-09-22 20:26:24

 wrote:Kind of like you repeating the bleach claim huh? Should we make it a capital offense?
Except I am correct:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump … -covid-19/

Did Trump Suggest Injecting Disinfectants as COVID-19 Treatment?

The U.S. president's comments prompted doctors and the makers of household disinfectants to issue statements urging people not to ingest or inject cleaning products. 

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The comment in question came shortly after a presentation by William N. Bryan, the acting undersecretary for science and technology at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, about how heat and humidity could impact the spread of COVID-19 during the summer months. Bryan mentioned a recent, non-peer-reviewed study that showed how disinfectants and sunlight could kill the coronavirus on non-porous surfaces such as counters or door handles. 

Bryan’s presentation focused on how light and disinfectants affected the coronavirus on surfaces. But when Trump took the podium, he started talking about what would happen if light and disinfectants were “brought inside the body” to fight the virus.

#11 2021-09-22 21:08:49

Exce3pt no, you are not correct and neither is Snopes. If you read the text of his statement HE DID NOT SUGGEST DOING IT! He suggested studying it. 

Donald J. Trump wrote:And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you’re going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.
And since they are specifically talking about lungs the idea of an "injection" would logically be a vaporizer or inhaler, not a hypodermic as you retards assume.

#12 2021-09-22 21:24:05

 wrote:Exce3pt no, you are not correct and neither is Snopes. If you read the text of his statement HE DID NOT SUGGEST DOING IT! He suggested studying it. 

And since they are specifically talking about lungs the idea of an "injection" would logically be a vaporizer or inhaler, not a hypodermic as you retards assume.
Look at you trying to squirm out of the fact that Trump made a stupid and dangerous suggestion.

The truth of the matter is, Trump didn't know what the fuq he was talking about.

From the article, later...

 wrote:In any case, attempts to deflect criticism of Trump’s remarks were rendered moot the next day, when the president essentially admitted discussing the injection of disinfectants to treat COVID-19 by claiming he said it “sarcastically” to prank reporters:

“I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters just like you, just to see what would happen. I was asking a sarcastic and a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside. But it does kill it and it would kill it on the hands, and it would make things much better.”
If Trump did not say it, why did he admit it the next day?

#13 2021-09-22 22:06:27

Phillip_McCavity wrote:Look at you trying to squirm out of the fact that Trump made a stupid and dangerous suggestion.

The truth of the matter is, Trump didn't know what the fuq he was talking about.

From the article, later...

If Trump did not say it, why did he admit it the next day?
So when did he say we should inject bleach?

#14 2021-09-22 22:06:43

Phillip_McCavity wrote:And, Obama didn't give them anything. It was their money.

#15 2021-09-22 22:10:13

 wrote:Exce3pt no, you are not correct and neither is Snopes. If you read the text of his statement HE DID NOT SUGGEST DOING IT! He suggested studying it. 

And since they are specifically talking about lungs the idea of an "injection" would logically be a vaporizer or inhaler, not a hypodermic as you retards assume.
That's a stretch of a defense, and I voted for Trump both times.

The man had no communication skills, his mouth would just run from non-sequitur to non-sequitur. What came out of his mouth could easily be interpreted as a suggestion to inject bleach, but almost everything that came out of his mouth needed a Rosetta Stone attuned to space brain to properly translate. 

He was, unfortunately, preferable to the available alternative. If either party had just run a freshly dropped steaming pile of shyt, it would have won in a landslide.

Phillip_McCavity wrote:$1.7 billion is a little different than $150 billion.

Do you think that a Secretary of State should know the difference?

And, Obama didn't give them anything. It was their money.
Correct

 wrote:Another libbie lie.
https://youtu.be/zicGxU5MfwE?si=_Xo6qXBsTJ-PqLMk

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