Portland, ME – Republican Donald Trump is again referencing footage of Iranians off-loading $400 million in cash from a plane that his campaign says he didn’t see.
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Trump repeated at a rally in Maine that he saw footage distributed by the Iranians showing the cash being delivered to Tehran in January.
“They want to embarrass our president” he said.
But Trump’s campaign said earlier Wednesday that Trump was simply referring to old footage shown “on all major broadcasts this morning” when he mentioned the video. That footage was not taken in Iran and did not show Iranians offloading money.
The Washington Post said the footage Trump saw was grainy nighttime video of people getting off a small plane, holding bags. “Geneva, January 17,” the footage is clearly labeled.
Trump apparently mistakenly assumed that this footage depicted the cash transfer.
This man is borderline (if nor completely over the line) psychotic. He lives in his own alternate universe and just makes things up by the hour.
The good news is that every poll this week showed Hillary increasing her lead, from 8 on Monday to 9 on Tuesday to 10 (a Fox News poll, yet!) on Wed., and now we have a poll just released this afternoon by the well respected Marist organization that gives her a 15 – that’s FIFTEEN – point lead nationwide. A complete meltdown for Trump, who now trails her in all the battleground states. As a confirmed Clinton hater back in the 90s, I never thought I’d prefer her over any Republican. But when that Republican is a delusional, infantile bovan, one’s perspective changes pretty quickly.