Clinton’s Khan Job
Where is Hillary's empathy for Benghazi mothers, families of Americans killed by illegal immigrants?
by Spencer Hill | Updated 01 Aug 2016 at 6:14 PM
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/clintons-khan-job/
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During the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton invited the Muslim mother and father of a fallen U.S. army captain to come speak on her behalf and to target Donald Trump.
Trump fell for the bait and engaged the Khans. Clinton’s allies and the media have reveled in the resulting high-profile back and forth between Trump and the Muslim family — using the spat to paint the GOP nominee as intolerant and irreverent and Clinton as empathetic to the grieving military family.
“It just demonstrates again kind of a temperamental unfitness,” Clinton running mate Tim Kaine said Sunday. “If you don’t have any more sense of empathy than that, then I’m not sure you can learn it.”
But while the political mouse trap was no doubt a crafty, effective move on the part of the Clintons, the incident underscores just how little empathy Clinton has shown other Americans when the political benefit is not so obvious.
In fact, Clinton has engaged in her own back and forth with the grieving families of the American heroes lost in the September 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi — though the media seems to have taken no notice.
"I have repeatedly asked Hillary Clinton to explain to me the real reason why my son is dead," Pat Smith, mother of Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, said during her speech to the Republican National Convention. "I'm still waiting."
Smith was one of the women who alleged Clinton lied to them point blank about an internet video being the cause of the Benghazi attack.
During a Sunday interview on "Fox News Sunday," Clinton dismissed Smith's impassioned speech, even implying the mother's grief may have caused her to misremember Clinton's words.
"As other members of families who lost loved ones have said, that's not what they heard," Clinton said. "I don't hold any ill feeling for someone who in that moment may not fully recall everything that was or wasn't said."
And what about the families of those killed by illegal immigrants?
"None whatsoever," said Maria Espinoza, co-founder and national director of the Remembrance Project when asked if Clinton had ever made any outreach to the victims her organization represents. The Remembrance Project works specifically to shed light on the tragic deaths of Americans at the hands of illegal aliens — criminals who should not have been in the country to take life.
Clinton "never reached out — not one word," Espinoza said. "[We were] not even invited to speak at the DNC — where she invited other mothers [to speak of their grief]. But we weren't invited, none of the families [of illegal alien crime] were invited to speak."
Indeed Clinton did invite other grieving mothers, those of children killed by gun violence, to speak at the DNC, but only those who fit the political narrative her campaign is crafting for the general election.
"I won't discredit that those mothers ... feel pain, however I know that the mothers [of victims] where these killings were preventable if only our basic and current laws were upheld [are also in pain]," Espinoza said.
Espinoza offered high praise to Donald Trump for taking the time to reach out to the families of her organization.
"We're so very thankful for Mr. Trump to reach out to the families," Espinoza said, "It has changed their lives in that someone is finally listening. As one mother put it, the Remembrance Project has been working on this since 2009 and he accomplished in five seconds what we had been trying to do in seven years."
Espinoza attributes the difference in real empathy to cynicism on Clinton's part and genuine love for America on the part of Trump.
"It boils down to the fact that she doesn't love America or Americans like Mr. Trump does," she said, "[Clinton] doesn't care how many children's lives she sacrifices."
"Her rhetoric is encouraging more lawlessness and more illegal aliens to come into the United States," Espinoza said. "What it's doing is telling those who are here already illegally that it's okay to break our laws.
