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Trump on reported $400M cash payment to Iran: 'Scandal'
"Our incompetent Secretary of State" laid the groundwork for
outreach to Iran, Trump claimed.
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Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton over a report that the U.S. secretly ferried $400 million in
cash to Iran as four American prisoners were freed earlier this year.
The “incompetent” Clinton, who was secretary of State earlier in
Obama’s term, “was the one who started talks to give $400 million
dollars, in cash, to Iran,” Trump said on Twitter early on Wednesday morning, hours after the story broke in The Wall Street Journal.
"Scandal!”
According to the Journal,the U.S. delivered the cash to Iran as stacks of bills on wooden
pallets in an unmarked cargo plane in January, as the four
Americans were in the final stages of their release from Iranian
prison.
The payment was reportedly made in a combination of multiple
currencies, including euros and Swiss francs. It is illegal to do business with Iran in U.S. dollars.
The State Department defended the payment, which came as part of a
separate legal issue between the U.S. and Iran unrelated to either
the American prisoners or the international nuclear pact, which
went into full effect later that same weekend. The money is part of
a scuttled arms accord reached shortly before the Iranian
revolution in 1979.
“Not only were the two negotiations
separate, they were conducted by different teams on each side,
including, in the case of The Hague claims, by technical experts
involved in these negotiations for many years,” department
spokesman John Kirby said in a statement, referring to the
international court that oversaw the settlement deal.
The $400 million represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement, which critics of the Obama administration have repeatedly decried
as ransom for the prisoners’ release.
New details about the unusual nature of the
payment are only likely to magnify those claims, and renew focus on
the White House’s controversial outreach to Iran.
“The logistics of this payment — literally delivering a plane full
of cash to evade U.S. law — shows yet again the extraordinary
lengths the Obama administration will go to accommodate Iran, all while hiding the facts from Congress and the American people,” Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), the head of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, said in a statement late on Tuesday evening.
“Hundreds of millions in the pockets of a terrorist regime means a
more dangerous region, period. And paying ransom only puts more
American lives in jeopardy.”
Clinton has taken credit for laying the
groundwork for the Iran deal, despite unanimous opposition from
Republicans and a fair amount of criticism from Democrats
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Panic Mode: Khizr Khan Deletes Law Firm Website that Specialized in
Muslim ...
Khizr Khan, the Muslim Gold Star father that Democrats and their
allies media wide have been using to hammer GOP...
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Khizr Khan, the Muslim Gold Star father
that Democrats and their allies media wide have been using to
hammer GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump, has deleted his law firm’s website from the Internet !!!.
This development is significant, as his website proved— as Breitbart News and others have reported—that he financially benefits from
unfettered pay-to-play Muslim migration into America.
A snapshot of his now deleted website, as captured by the Wayback Machine which takes snapshots archiving
various websites on the Internet, shows that as a lawyer he engages in procurement of EB5 immigration visas and
other “Related Immigration Services”. The website is completely removed from the Internet, and instead
directs visitors to the URL at which it once was to a page parking
the URL run by GoDaddy.
The EB5 program, which helps wealthy foreigners usually from the Middle
East essentially buy their way into America, is fraught with corruption. U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has detailed such corruption over the past several months, and in
February issued a blistering statement about it.
“Maybe it is only here on Capitol Hill—on
this island surrounded by reality—that we can choose to plug our
ears and refuse to listen to commonly accepted facts,” Grassley
said in a statement earlier this year. “The Government Accountability Office, the media, industry experts,
members of congress, and federal agency officials, have concurred
that the program is a serious problem with serious vulnerabilities. Allow me to mention a few of the flaws.”
Grassley’s statement even noted that the program Khan celebrated on his
website has posed national security risks.
“There are also classified reports that detail the national security,
fraud and abuse. Our committee has received numerous briefings and
classified documents to show this side of the story,” Grassley said in the early February 2016 statement. “The enforcement arm of the Department of Homeland Security wrote an
internal memo that raises significant concerns about the program.
One section of the memo outlines concerns that it could be used by Iranian operatives to infiltrate the United
States. The memo identifies seven main areas of program vulnerability,
including the export of sensitive technology, economic espionage, use by
foreign government agents and terrorists, investment fraud, illicit
finance and money laundering.”
Khan spoke alongside his wife Ghazala Khan
at the Democratic National Convention last week in Philadelphia,
and they were honoring their son U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan—a
hero who lost his life to a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004. On behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic nominee for
president, Khizr Khan ripped into Donald Trump’s policies on
immigration—specifically bashing his plan to bar Muslim migration
from regions afflicted with rampant terrorism into America
temporarily until the United States can figure out what’s going on.
Khan even brought out a pocket Constitution, claiming inaccurately
that Trump’s plans were unconstitutional. That’s not true, as Congress has already granted such power to the president under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952—allowing the president to bar migration of any alien or class of
aliens the president sees as a threat to the United States for any
reason at any time. Such a class of aliens could be Muslims, or it could be people
from a specific region of the world, or any other class—such as
someone’s race, weight, height, age, national origin, religion, or
anything else.
The media, along with Hillary Clinton and her supporters throughout the
Democratic Party establishment, has pushed the line of attack
against Trump for days. Now on Tuesday, President Barack Obama has said that Trump is
“unfit” to serve as President over the matter. Even a group of
anti-Trump congressional Republicans has gone after Trump on the
matter.
But as Breitbart News and other new media have exposed Khan’s various deep political and legal connections to
the Clintons—and to Muslim migration—the attack line has crumbled. Now, with Khan deleting his website in an apparent effort to hide
his biographical information, the attack is falling apart even more.
What’s perhaps interesting is that also on this website that he has now
deleted, Khan revealed that he spent nearly a decade working for
the mega-D.C. law firm Hogan & Hartson—now Hogan Lovells
LLP—which connects him directly with the government of Saudi Arabia and the
Clintons themselves. Saudi Arabia, which has retained the firm that Khan worked at for
years, has donated between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation. Hillary Clinton, despite the repeated urging of Trump, has refused
to return the Clinton Cash money to the Saudis. What’s more, Hogan
Lovells also did Hillary Clinton’s taxes—and helped acquire the patents for parts of the technology she used in
crafting her illicit home-brew email server that the FBI director
called “extremely careless” in handling classified information.
What’s more, the entire mainstream has proven negligence with regard to this matter as none of them even thought to
look into this Khan guy’s law practice before bandying him about as
some kind of magic elixir that cures the country of Trump.
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Khan’s secret ties to Saudis, push for more migrants in U.S.
Khizr Khan, the father of a slain Muslim U.S. soldier, who
condemned Republican nominee Donald Trump at the Demo...
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Khizr Khan, the father of a slain Muslim U.S. soldier, who
condemned Republican nominee Donald Trump at the Democratic
National Convention, has deep ties to both Saudi Arabia’s government and a pay-to-play
scheme bringing Muslim migrants into the U.S.
The EB5 visas allow wealthy foreigners – such as migrants from China, South Korea, Mexico and the Middle East – to get green cards if they invest in American jobs.
“In effect, rich people can buy American citizenship, and that’s made it controversial in an era of wariness about
immigration,” wrote Atlantic reporter Alana Semuels. “Most of them are doing it because they want the green card and
it’s the fastest or best way to get a green card.”
Khan’s ties to Saudi Arabia
The Free Beacon noted, “Robert Kyle, a lobbyist from the firm, has bundled $50,850 for
Clinton’s campaign,” and it added: The Saudi government has
“supplied the Clinton Foundation with millions. The Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia has given between $10 and $25 million to the foundation while Friends of Saudi
Arabia has contributed between $1 and $5 million.”
“Might the government of Saudi Arabia, which has spent countless
billions of dollars spreading the virulent and violent Wahhabi
strain of Islam around the world, have any interest in making sure
that a presidential candidate who speaks more forthrightly about
the Islamic terror threat than any presidential candidate has since
John Quincy Adams, and who has vowed to take concrete steps to
counter that threat, is defeated? Is that why Khizr Khan, brimming with self-righteous indignation
and misleading disinformation about the relationship of Islamic
jihad terrorism to Islam, was not only featured at the Democratic
National Convention but has dominated the news cycle ever since?”
Spencer continued, “The real foreign influence story in this election involves the
Saudis and the Democrats. Saudi influence in Washington must end.
Khizr Khan represents an all-out effort by the mainstream media and
the Democratic Party establishment to maintain that influence. In light of that, Donald Trump was right to answer his attacks, and
should have been even stronger in his responses. It’s time for the United States of America to regain its
independence.”
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