Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE on Thursday repeated his claim that he saw video of an American shipment of cash to Iran, despite his campaign contradicting that statement a day earlier.

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"A tape was made, you saw that, with the airplane coming in, nice plane. The airplane coming in and the money coming off," Trump told supporters during a rally in Portland, Maine.

"That was given to us, has to be, by the Iranians. And you know why the tape was given to us? They want to embarrass our country, embarrass our president."

It's the same story the GOP nominee told at a rally Wednesday in Daytona Beach, Fla. The claim has been discredited by intelligence officials and clarified by the campaign.

Government officials told both The Associated Press and The Daily Beast that they did not believe footage of the January delivery of $400 million to Iran exists.

And Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks confirmed to The Washington Post that Trump was referring to b-roll footage that Fox News showed while discussing the story that was actually from Geneva, not showing the delivery in Tehran.

The Wall Street Journal broke the story earlier this week of the cash delivery, which came around the time that Iran released four American prisoners.

The Obama administration downplayed any link between the timing, noting that the money was part of the concessions of the Iran nuclear agreement — but Republicans and Trump have seized on the timing to frame the money as a hostage ransom.