Trump demands Clinton apologize for ISIS video claim
US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders apologized to Hillary Clinton and his own supporters Saturday night for a breach of her campaign’s valuable voter data, seeking to put the controversy to rest in a debate that quickly moved on to national security concerns and Americans’ heightened fear of terrorism.
The debate unfolded amid a minor scandal between the Clinton and Sanders campaigns over an apparent data breach when at least one Sanders staffer took advantage of a computer glitch to peek at Clinton voter information.
“I think that if you look at what’s going on in the Middle East, the fact that Mr. Trump is on television over there all the time, the fact that ISIS is using him as a recruitment tool, I think it’s a very fair charge”, John Podesta, a top official of the Clinton campaign was quoted as saying.
“Knowing the Clintons and knowing Hillary, she made it up”, Trump said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”.
She said that the resolution the U.N. Security Council adopted Friday should do precisely that, since it provides for a cease-fire, political negotiations, a transitional government and elections within 18 months.
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Still, the likelihood that Trump-the guy who made up thousands and thousands of Muslims celebrating in New Jersey after the 9/11 attacks gets an apology from the Clinton campaign?
“He is becoming ISIS’ best recruiter”, she charged.
Mrs Clinton said the terror group, also known as Daesh, were using videos of Mr Trump “insulting Islam and Muslims” to recruit more fanatics.
During debates, sometimes what the candidates say do not match up with the facts.
Sanders’ campaign has successfully turned grassroots energy into a sizable war chest, announcing last week that it had received 2 million contributions – a milestone only matched by President Barack Obama in his re-election campaign. “I have said that I want to be the president for the struggling, the striving, and the successful, ” she said.
“We need to have everybody in our country focused on watching what’s happening and reporting it if it’s suspicious…making sure Muslim-Americans don’t feel left out or marginalized at the very moment when we need their help”, she said.
But while most polls have Clinton leading by more than 20 percentage points nationally, the contest remains tight in the crucial early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, the latter in which Sanders has an advantage as the longtime senator of neighboring Vermont.
The Sanders campaign was shortly banned from access to the database by the DNC but his team claims that it happened as a result of DNC for it sent mistakenly Clinton team’s data to them. “We run – we let Iran become – it’s a terror nation, and we let Iran become really powerful”, Trump said.
“I apologize to Secretary Clinton”, said Sanders.
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“I hope a lot of people watch the debate tonight, I think it was a good debate, but I think there is a desire on the part of the leadership of the DNC to protect Secretary Clinton”, he added, referring to the Democratic National Committee.