And the checks for the cash were each $99,999,999.99 to stay under the 0NE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR cap on the president's discretionary spending limit... He cut 17 checks for the cash designed to thwart his limits... An abuse of power... And money laundering.
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For those who want to go down the rabbit hole on where this $400M actually came from, here's two great sources.
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/106th-congress/house-report/733/1
http://www.bits.de/public/documents/iran/Hamilton-Iran-01Vol1.pdf
TLDR: Iran had claimed $1.8 b in funds paid to the US in the '70s for military hardware, including fighter jets. After the 1979 Hostage Crisis we held this money and never sent the goods. The fund got spent down paying contractors on "cancelation fees" and other defence contractor claims.
The victims of the terrorist acts of Iran wanted some of that money but never got it! Obama COULD HAVE dispersed this money to victims of Iranian terror and instead just sent it back.
Question is: If Iran had claimed $1.8B and "only" got back $1.7B WHERE IS THAT REMAINING $100M????
And how do you get ONLY $1.3B interest on $400M after almost 40 years???
No shit. Take hostages, deal is off, you don't get paid. That simple.