Still bitter about losing the vice presidency to Mike Pence, a rancorous Chris Christie took the RNC stage, unleashing lie after lie about Hillary Clinton, calling her an Al-Qaeda “apologist.”
This couldn’t be further from the truth. Under her leadership, the State Department designated Al-Qaeda affiliate Boko Haram’s leaders as terrorists.
Christie can lie all he wants, but that won’t get him closer to the White House.
CHRISTIE’S LIE: CHRISTIE: “What was the solution from the Obama/Clinton team? A hashtag campaign! Hillary Clinton, as an apologist for an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Nigeria resulting in the capture of innocent young women guilty or not guilty? She fights for the wrong people.”
THE TRUTH: Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department designated Al-Qaeda affiliate Boko Haram’s leaders as terrorists. “The United States on Thursday named three alleged leaders of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram as ‘foreign terrorists,’ the first time it has blacklisted members of the Islamist group blamed for attacks across Africa’s most populous nation. The State Department identified the three as Abubakar Shekau, calling him the ‘most visible’ leader of the group, and Abubakar Adam Kambar and Khalid al-Barnawi, who it said were tied both to Boko Haram and to al Qaeda’s north African wing. ‘These designations demonstrate the United States’ resolve in diminishing the capacity of Boko Haram to execute violent attacks,’ it said, saying that Boko Haram or associated militants were responsible for more than 1,000 deaths in the past 18 months.” [Reuters,6/21/12]