The Drudge Report,Fox News, Donald Trump, and a host of other right-wing institutions are in a tizzy nowadays over a report in the Wall Street Journal that the United States government sent a secret plane stuffed with $400 million in Swiss francs and euros directly to Tehran back in January,at precisely the same time Iran agreed to release four American detainees. “Obama Paid $400M ‘Ransom’ to Iran,” is how the New York Post is playing the sage. Trump himself is calling it a “scandal.” What people seem to be missing is the fact that, and while the Journal is the first to report that the payment was made in cash,literally everything else approximately the sage—the money, the prisoner release, or the quid pro quo allegationswas reported back in January.
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Source: jalopnik.com