Wait a second. Did Hillary just lie about terrorist activity caused by a video again?

When Hillary Clinton made the claim that ISIS was showing a video of Donald Trump making “incendiary” comments about Muslims as a recruiting tool , she was totally lying.

It’s such a stupid lie that many in the media missed it. Clinton claimed: ISIS is going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.”

It’s total nonsense. Even some of the media there were making a joke of it:

https://twitter.com/JeffreyGoldberg/status/678404027466522624

Of course, there’s no video. Not even close. Some might argue that when Trump advocates temporarily shutting down Muslim immigration, it plays into the hands of the terrorists, who would use those statements as proof of America’s Islamophobia.

But a video as a recruitment tool? No.

Politifact rated the claim “False:”

Not having heard that before, our eyebrows went up when we heard Clinton’s comment, and we weren’t alone. The Twittersphere, on both the right and the left, picked up on Clinton’s statement and questioned whether she had any evidence for it. Extensive Google searches did not turn up any evidence. And the response from the Clinton campaign did not point to any specific videos. The campaign pointed to an NBC News article that quoted Rita Katz of the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors the social media activities of Islamic terrorist groups. “They love him from the sense that he is supporting their rhetoric,” she said. “They follow everything Donald Trump says. When he says, ‘No Muslims should be allowed in America,’ they tell people, ‘We told you America hates Muslims and here is proof.’ “ The article also quoted David Phillips, director of the Program on Peace-Building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, saying that “Trump’s incendiary anti-Muslim comments will surely be used by ISIS social media to demonize the United States and attract recruits to fight in Iraq and Syria.” But while such quotes support the notion that ISIS could be making recruiting videos, or will do so, they do not support Clinton’s contention — offered in the present tense — that they are currently doing so. Vox.com tweeted at J.M. Berger, author of the book ISIS: The State of Terror, and Berger tweeted back, “I would be surprised if they had and we didn’t hear about it in a big way.” For now, it seems that Clinton has turned speculative left-of-center rhetoric into fact.

Yes, then. It is another case where Hillary blames a video on terrorist activities. She’s so old, she’s now just using the same lie over and over again to fit whatever the storyline is.

How depressing.





