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Clinton’s Lie About Taking ‘Sniper Fire’ in Bosnia Coming Back to Haunt Her
Hillary Clinton, while campaigning for president in 2008,
deliberately deceived the American people by fabricating a tale of landing “under sniper fire” during a trip to Bosnia in 1996 to bolster her foreign policy experience.
The lie,
which she told more than once,
is coming back to haunt her in the ongoing election cycle.
Clinton’s rival, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has recently highlighted her false claims on the campaign trail,
describing Clinton as a “world class liar” and calling out her “phony landing in Bosnia, where she said she was under attack and
the attack turned out to be young girls handing her “flowers” during a speech Wednesday.
In a speech at George Washington University in March 2008, the now-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said that, when she arrived in Bosnia on March 25, 1996,
“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport,In a speech at George Washington University in March 2008...”
Soon after the speech, the deception came to light courtesy of a reporter from The Washington Post who was there. Her statements were awarded “four Pinocchios” by the newspaper, a rating reserved for political misstatements described as “whoppers.”
News video footage of her arrival at Tuzla, Bosnia shows then-First Lady Clinton walking calmly from the rear ramp of a U.S. Air Force aircraft alongside her then 16-year-old daughter Chelsea. The Clintons held their heads up and did not appear to be in any sort of hurry.
As a matter of fact, Hillary Clinton is shown spending time talking with a group of people, including an 8-year-old Bosnian girl who presented her with a poem, and later greeting American service members
She lied to the American people about the sniper fire at least twice during her campaign, including in Dubuque, Iowa in December 2008.
“Clinton’s Bosnia story is widely regarded as a lie,” acknowledges Business Insider.
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