Trump Wants an Apology for Hillary’s ISIS Lie

Donald Trump called out Hillary Clinton on Monday for her claim that ISIS has used him in propaganda videos as a recruiting tool and demanded the Democratic frontrunner apologize for the erroneous claim.

“I demand an apology from Hillary Clinton for the disgusting story she made up about me for purposes of the debate,” he tweeted. “There never was a video.”

Call it a Christmas miracle, but for once, the facts are actually supporting part of Trump’s accusation because terrorism experts say no such video exists.

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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies who studies ISIS and other radical extremist groups, also said Clinton’s claim is baseless.

“The claim that Trump’s posturing can feed IS’s narrative is correct,” he said. “But he hasn’t appeared in an IS video as of the time of Hillary’s claim, as far as anyone can tell.”

“There is an enormous amount of IS propaganda being produced, both official and unofficial, so there are very few analysts who have watched all of IS’s videos,” Gartenstein-Ross, a fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies said. “This is true even for those of us who spend a lot of time following the jihadist web and watching jihadist propaganda. That being said, I believe Hillary Clinton’s claim was false.”

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