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# Donald Trump Appears to Admit he Was Wrong on Iran Video

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## Mahita Gajanan


Gajanan is an editor at TIME.

Aug 5, 2016 1:14 PM UTC

by 

[Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/)


## Mahita Gajanan


Gajanan is an editor at TIME.

Aug 5, 2016 1:14 PM UTC

Donald Trump appears to have admitted he was wrong when he claimed he saw footage of cash being transferred to Iran.

“The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!” the Republican nominee tweeted Friday morning.

At a Florida rally on Wednesday, Trump said he had seen video of cash being taken from a plane, referring to the [$400 million flown to Tehran](http://time.com/4436518/us-sent-iran-cash-hostages/) around the same time Iran released four American hostages in January. President Barack Obama quieted speculation that the cash transfer was a ransom for the release of the hostages on Thursday, saying the [timing was a coincidence](http://time.com/4439884/obama-denies-iran-ransom-payment/). The cash was part of a $1.7 billion settlement of a dispute over an arms deal between the U.S. and pre-revolution Iran.

Trump described the video of the supposed transfer in detail to the crowd at the Florida rally, although officials later said there was [no such footage](https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-fact-check-trump-off-clinton-iran-payment-180458387--election.html?utm%5Fsource=twitterfeed&utm%5Fmedium=twitter&ref=gs). His campaign spokeswoman said Thursday the video he saw was B-roll footage shown on TV, and that he did not see a money transfer.

The real video Trump saw showed the released American hostages landing in Geneva, Switzerland.

> [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/761511930238496772)

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