Hillary Clintons värsta fiende

Hillary Clintons värsta fiende är förmodligen hennes man Bill, ex-presidenten. Han ställde till det för henne 2008 genom en attack mot Barack Obama som hade rasistiska övertoner. Nu har han gått till hennes försvar i den segdragna debatten om hur hon som utrikesminister hanterade morden på ambassadpersonal i Benghazi.

Såhär ska Bill på Meet the press 29 juni:

“When ten different instances occurred when President Bush was in office where American diplomatic personnel were killed around the world, how many outraged Republican members of Congress were there? Zero.”

Nu har Washington Posts Fact Checker Glenn Kessler kollat upp hur det var och visar att Bill hade fel

In service of a dubious comparison, Clinton exaggerated when he claimed that there was “zero” Republican outrage about the deaths of Americans under Bush’s watch.

At least one of the deaths led to congressional hearings and a government report. That’s not the same level of attention as the myriad Benghazi probes, but it is more than zero. Moreover, in making his claim, Clinton ignores the similar one-off attacks that have killed diplomatic personnel during Obama’s presidency, making it an unbalanced comparison.

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