Donald Trump Retweets Another Outright Lie: The Al-Shabaab Video Did NOT Include Hillary Clinton
Right wing blogs are spreading another outright falsehood, claiming that the al-Shabaab terrorist recruitment video that featured a clip of Donald Trump also had Hillary Clinton in it.
I’ve finished watching the entire video now and Donald Trump is definitely in it, as an example of “America’s hatred of Muslims,” but Hillary Clinton is absolutely not in this video. Wingnut bloggers are lying again, knowing that most people won’t watch the whole awful video themselves to check their claims.
This lie apparently originated with @redsteeze (Stephen Miller), and he’s now deleted his tweet — but here’s what it said:
Hi media. Know who else is in that Al Shabaab recruitment video with Trump? Hillary Clinton & Black Lives Matter pic.twitter.com
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 2, 2016
And guess who else picked up on this false report? Yep. The leading GOP candidate for president of the United States:
By the way, Hillary & the MSM forgot to mention that Hillary is in the Al-Shabaab terror video. https://t.co/gRannsRXJr
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2016
(I saved a screenshot of this Trump tweet in case he deletes it.)
The video is here, if you want to check for yourself; it’s almost an hour long, and the section featuring Donald Trump starts at about 10:50.