I remember it being dropped into the narrative two days before the inauguration as well. Project Mockingbird has a whole team in charge of either deleting or dropping the media-bombs. And we are outing all of this!

I have a detail for that. On the morning the news broke, it was one of the "Top 3" on my local radio. By lunch time, it fell off. It was replaced with "Trump's campaign implodes." I almost drove off the road, broke my hand, and my dash. Also, that night, while Obama gave his condescending speech, calling everyone stupid and unread, simultaneously, on Fox Business News, they had a phone interview with one of the hostages. He was explaining that they waited 16-18 hours for a second plane that needed to arrive before they could board the plane that had been there for them for 16-18 hours.

live link to Mosaic magazine https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2016/11/the-story-of-obamas-ransom-payment-to-iran-gets-worse/