Zimmerman lashes out at Obama in new video

Melanie Eversley | USA TODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption George Zimmerman blames Obama in new video In a new video, George Zimmerman says President Obama pitted Americans against each other in the wake of Trayvon Martin's death. To watch Zimmerman's full interview, go to www.18884mydivorce.com.

The former volunteer neighborhood watchman acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of a black Florida teen lashed out at President Obama and said he feels no guilt in the racially charged case that galvanized the country.

In a 13-minute video posted on the website of his lawyer, George Zimmerman says the Obama administration acted irresponsibly in publicly expressing empathy for the family of Trayvon Martin, who died in Feb. 26, 2012, in Sanford, Fla., during a scuffle with Zimmerman.

In the tape, Zimmerman says he does not feel he did anything wrong and that federal officials treated him unfairly. He compared himself to Anne Frank, the Holocaust victim whose published diary offered a window into her suffering, and made reference to God. He said he has a clean conscience.

"Only in a true life-or-death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving," ZImmerman said. "In all fairness you cannot as a human feel guilty for living, for surviving."

When asked on the tape which person he feels has been the most unfair to him, Zimmerman replied, "By far, the president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama."

Zimmerman made reference to a speech the president made at the White House in which he said that if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin.

"To me that was clearly been a dereliction of duty," Zimmerman said, pointing to the president's invitation to the Trayvon Martin family to visit the White House and the president's assertion that all childrens' lives matter.

"Unfortunately for the president, I'm also my parent's child and my life matters as well," Zimmerman said. "And for him to make incendiary comments as he did and direct the Department of Justice to pursue a baseless prosecution he by far overstretched, overreached, even broke the law in certain aspects to where you have an innocent American being prosecuted by the federal government."

He also lashed out at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, expressing his disappointment in the gorup's decision not to side with him in the Martin case.

"They aligned themselves with the Black Congressional Caucus and did everything that they could to throw me under the bus," he said, adding that they portrayed him as a "white racist ... without knowing anything about my character."

Neither George Crump, the lawyer for the Trayvon Martin family, nor Zimmerman lawyer Howard Iken could be reached late Monday night. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Though acquitted on murder and manslaughter charges last year, Zimmerman's life since the Trayvon Martin death has been on a dramatic slope. He and his wife have sued one another for divorce, and he has had at least three arrests in recent years.