Trump Teases Obama Claim On Iran, Then Goes Silent

President Trump was mid-discussion about Iran on Fox News this week when he suddenly slammed the brakes on himself before revealing something about former President Barack Obama.

“But if you look for 47 years, they’ve been tapping people along, presidents,” he began. “Every president got tapped along, didn’t do anything, and they became more and more powerful. This should have been done 47 years ago. It shouldn’t have been allowed to start. But Clinton let them go and Bush let them go. Everybody let them go.”

Then he turned to Obama: “And Obama was the worst of all because Obama actually went to their side.” Then cryptically, he added, “Obama, because, you know, he’s a —  Well, let’s not say. Let’s not say. Let’s leave that for another time.”

DID YOU CATCH THAT?! ????

Trump says that Obama “went to their side”, referring to Iran, and then catches himself before he reveals some information about Obama that he is not supposed to say yet, and says “let’s save that for another time”.

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Trump zeroed in on the 2016 episode in which the Obama administration flew roughly $1.7 billion in foreign currency to Tehran aboard an unmarked cargo plane, timed to coincide with the release of American hostages. Critics have long branded the payout a ransom, and Trump reminded Fox viewers just how staggering the sum was — enough cash to fill an entire jumbo jet.

That episode has fueled years of conservative outrage. Back in 2016, Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee fired off a scathing letter to Obama’s State Department, Treasury and Justice officials, demanding answers about whether the payment violated sanctions law. The senators noted the suspicious lengths the administration went to — converting dollars into euros and Swiss francs and routing the money through European banks — and questioned why, if the transaction was legitimate, it needed such secrecy.

Prior to that, Defense official-turned-commentator Douglas Feith attacked the Iran nuclear deal in 2015, arguing Obama abandoned his original goal of dismantling Iran’s nuclear program in favor of forging a broader “strategic partnership” with the regime — even as Tehran kept chanting death to America and holding U.S. prisoners.

Critics also pointed to Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech, accusing him of an apologetic tone toward the Muslim world and a naive embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood that, they argued, emboldened Islamist extremism across the region.

Trump has never been shy about targeting Obama; he famously branded Obama the “founder of ISIS” during the 2016 campaign, doubling down when pressed by radio host Hugh Hewitt that he meant it literally, not metaphorically — even tossing Hillary Clinton in as “co-founder.”

Whatever Trump almost said on Fox this week remains a mystery. But his broader message was clear: Obama’s Iran policy wasn’t just soft — it was a historic blunder Trump believes America is still paying for.