Hillary Clinton Campaign Doubles Down After Experts Question Claim About ISIS Videos Using Donald Tr

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Source: ABC News

Hillary Clinton Campaign Doubles Down After Experts Question Claim About ISIS Videos Using Donald Trump

By LIZ KREUTZ
Dec 20, 2015, 10:50 AM ET

Hillary Clinton’s communications director defended her candidate’s claim that ISIS is using videos of Donald Trump to recruit members, but could not point to specific evidence of this happening in an interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" today.

Jen Palmieri said Clinton wasn't referring to a specific video during Saturday's debate when she said Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric is making him "ISIS's best recruiter" and that “they are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.” Clinton offered no specific evidence of the claim.

"She’s not referring to a specific video, but he is being used in social media by ISIS as propaganda,” said Palmieri.

Many fact checkers and national security experts have been unable to verify Clinton's claim. White House and National Security Council officials would also not support her assertion, telling ABC News they are unaware of any examples of ISIS including Trump in the group's videos.

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[cantbeserious]

1. Imagine That - HRC Told A Lie - Expect More To Come

eom

[FreakinDJ]

2. Remember DWS says "Negatives don't matter"

or was that Cheney saying "Deficits don't matter"

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Did she mention being "dead broke" in her latest expansion of flexible truth?

[leftofcool]

4. Donald Trump is seen all over the world.

What makes people disbelieve that ISIS watches him spout his bigotry. Of course they watch the videos.

[Enrique]

5. she fooled me with that one

my least favorite lies are the ones that fool me.

I'm glad the media caught it before I spread it to anyone.

[bigtree]

6. oh, look, a thread defending Trump

...at Hillary's expense.

[arcane1]

7. Nobody can honestly say the post is "defending Trump"

Making up bullshit does no one any good.

[bigtree]

12. of course, it does

...it wouldn't take much acknowledge that Trump's hatespeak is going to be used by all sorts of demagogues, including ISIS.

Yet this article bends back the other way to completely discount Hillary's statement that "Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric is making him "ISIS's best recruiter" and that “they are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.”

It's a defense of Trump which shouldn't get a moments effort from anyone actually concerned with his rhetoric, and it's made at Hillary's expense for stating the obvious.

[HerbChestnut]

14. I read the article, and nothing in there defends Trump

All it did was refute the claim that Hillary made during the debate.

[bigtree]

15. what can I say?

...you have your perspective, I have mine.

It didn't 'refute' anything. It stretched her statement to the point of misrepresenting what she actually said, and errs in dismissing her claim out-of-hand.

[HerbChestnut]

17. That's fair.

Agree to disagree.

[arcane1]

16. Whatever It Takes(tm)

Defenses of Clinton are rarely honest.

[bigtree]

18. this article sure isn't honest

...and it carries water for a rabid demagogue.

That's something which could only make it's way onto a Democratic forum as a slam on Hillary. It's a defense of Trump and a slam on our Democratic candidate which can only be seen as fair through an anti-Hillary lens.

[leftofcool]

9. You noticed that too, eh?

[Skidmore]

10. Pretty special, isn't it?

Political naivete or intentional sabotage are sometimes hard to differentiate.

[HerbChestnut]

11. This thread, in no way, defends Donald Trump.

[bigtree]

13. the article absolutely does. It defends Trump by splitting hairs

...and it looks like the poster took the bait, hook, line, and sinker.

It's not really surprising, as anything anti-Hillary is seen as fair game here.

[JaneyVee]

8. Perhaps watching even inside the US.

Hard to ignore him.

[karynnj]

19. I was more surprised when she spoke of a long day in Geneva

When she drafted the UN resolution - conflating a 2011/2012 resolution that was vetoed by Russia and China with the resolution that Kerry and Lavrov led about 20 countries including all P5 and Iran and Saudi Arabia to draft.

This is weird for two reasons. First, Obama himself is not getting much credit for it and she purposely is not speaking of his actions - even when she speaks of pulling together a coalition against ISIS, ignoring he has about 60 countries in a coalition and that could expand if Syria starts a transition. Second, it is completely obvious that the two resolutions are not the same. It's like claiming credit for a nicely baked souffle, cooked in the same oven where you cooked one that fell after it was removed from the oven nearly 4 years earlier.

[Chitown Kev]

20. I'm pretty sure that Trump has shown up

on Al-Jazeera a time or 2...still,, it was a pretty broad claim.

[bvar22]

21. ...and...and....

....then the snipers started shooting at us.

[AzDar]

22. Shady regarding her Education Plan and Donors ("look them up"), too...

She's a LIAR... and Bernie needs to call her shit OUT.

[99Forever]

23. Liar liar...

... pants on fire.

[loyalsister]

24. Worse.. she invokved Islamaphobia

From the debate transcript...

"well, if we can't know what someone is planning, we are going to have to rely on the neighbor or, you know, the member of the mosque or the teacher, somebody to see something."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/19/3rd-democratic-debate-transcript-annotated-who-said-what-and-what-it-meant/

She mentioned the mosque for a reason. Again pulling the bigoted practice of demanding Muslims to take responsibility for terrorism. I once believed that Hillary Clinton was not a bigot, now I'm not so sure. Her attitude towards BLM and the above statement suggest she is.

In fairness, Bernie ducked the question on profiling.

And Martin O'Malley nailed it.

My friend Kashif, who is a doctor in Maryland; back to this issue of our danger as a democracy of turning against ourselves. He was putting his 10 and 12-year-old boys to bed the other night. And he is a proud American Muslim. And one of his little boys said to him, "Dad, what happens if Donald Trump wins and we have to move out of our homes?" These are very, very real issues. this is a clear and present danger in our politics within.

[treestar]

25. Seriously? It almost sounds like defending ISIS!

Like they would never do such a thing! I guess they are innocent of these charges?

Trump is dangerously spreading bigotry and it's more important to try to find a way to bash Hillary? SMH.

[gwheezie]

26. Not all Bernie supporters™

Have at times sided with Isis, trump and Putin because Hillary makes them so mad.