I'm not sure how to explain anything about this election to anyone outside the US anymore. They'll think I'm peddling an outlandish script.
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It was news b-roll?!? That's what he's citing?!? Is there a ::headdesk:: emoji?Maybe ::headscreen:: will do?


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Hey, people WE HAVE A FACTUAL CORRECTION. There is an intervention, maybe a phone held hostage? https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/761511930238496772 …
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Finally read up. Why so few mentions of the fact that this was ... Iran's own money? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/world/middleeast/iran-cash-delivery-white-house-ransom.html …pic.twitter.com/RXTgGwag37
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Darren Cohen
So the scandal is that US is getting to keep $1.3 billion of Iran's money?https://twitter.com/RealDarrenCohen/status/761556193114488833 …
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No. It was announced in January that we'd paid them back the 400MM + 37yrs of interest = 1.7Bilhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/19/press-briefing-press-secretary-josh-earnest-1192016 …
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@Walshman23 Ah! US held Iran's money. Returned it for less than likely The Hague ruling. Got people back.. Clarity.pic.twitter.com/k39MDd0MFy
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"The $400 million that Obama aides say belongs to Iran should have long ago been distributed to Iran's American victims"
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Their argument is they settled for billions less than an eventual The Hague ruling. One can dispute likelihood but+
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..far cry from "they paid ransom" since this wasn't US money to begin with; and Le Hague and US courts different.
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^La Hague, The Hague, etc.
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