The statement was a rare reversal of comments he made on the campaign trail earlier this week.

"The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!" Trump tweeted.

Earlier in the week Trump had gone into detail about seeing footage of the money in responding to the news that the U.S. had transferred $400 million to Iran in January at the same time that American hostages were being released from the country.  "I'll never forget the scene this morning," Mr. Trump said at a rally in Florida Wednesday. "And remember this. Iran — I don't think you've heard this anywhere but here — Iran provided all of that footage, the tape, of taking that money off that airplane, right?

"Now here's the amazing thing: over there, where that plane landed — top secret, they don't have a lot of paparazzi. You know, the paparazzi doesn't do so well over there, right?" he said.