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Doing his part in the media’s minimizing of the $400 million the Obama administration sent to Iran around the time four Americans were freed, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews spent a measly one minute of his Wednesday show discussing the matter only after his show carried portions of a Donald Trump rally in which the issue came up.
Matthews pulled back from the Trump rally and observed that the Republican presidential candidate was “on the counterattack” by having “launched an offensive there about the money we’ve unfrozen that has been sitting in banks, being held up, has to do with some old arms dispute between the United States and the Shah back before there was a revolution over there.”