[h=1]'I blame Hillary': Mother of Benghazi victim calls for Clinton to be JAILED after the former Secretary of State 'called her a liar' in aftermath of attack[/h]
By GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN CLEVELAND, OHIO
PUBLISHED: 02:53, 19 July 2016 | UPDATED: 04:56, 19 July 2016
Pat Smith, whose son Sean Smith was the State Department information officer killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack, delivered an emotional speech at the Republican convention where she said Hillary Clinton should go to jail.
Smith delivered a lengthy indictment of the U.S. government's conduct during the hours while the attack was unfolding, then went right after Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump's opponent, for her conduct during and after the attack.
After a member of the crowd yelled out that Clinton had lied, Smith said: 'She lied to me and then called me a liar,' mentioning the solemn arrival ceremony when her son's coffin was returned to the U.S.
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Pat Smith (pictured) said she blames Hillary Clinton for the death of her son Sean in the Benghazi attacks
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Pat Smith's son Sean (pictured) was the State Department information officer killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack
'She looked me squarely in the eye and told me a video was responsible,' Smith said, repeating her charge that Clinton told her at the ceremony that an anti-American video motivated the attack.
Subsequent investigations found it was a terror attack on the compound rather than a spontaneous response to the video.
'How could she do this to me? How could she do this to any American family? Donald Trump is everything Hillary Clinton is not,' Smith said.
As she concluded her emotional remarks, Smith looked down on a printed sign held up by a member of the crowd that said 'HILLARY FOR PRISON!'
'That's right. Hillary for Prison. She deserves to be in stripes,' Smith said with emotion in her voice.
Smith has gone after Clinton in a series of TV interviews, including one in March after Clinton said in a Democratic debate that Smith was 'absolutely wrong' to say she lied.
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A convention attendee held up a 'Hillary for Prison' sign, prompting Smith to call for Clinton to be 'in stripes'
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Four Americans including Sean Smith died in the Benghazi attacks (pictured, the US consulate in flames in 2012)
'We were nose-to-nose at the coffin ceremony. She lied to me,' Smith told the Fox Business Network. 'She told me it was the fault of the video. I said 'are you sure?' She says, 'Yes, that's what it was. … It was the video.'
Clinton has denied Smith's claim.
She has said there is a 'special place in hell' for people like Clinton.
During her remarks before the convention crowd Smith spoke about her son as a 'wonderful son and father to my two amazing grandchildren, Samantha and Nathan, now 10 and 11.'
The crowd grew silent as she told her story. 'The last time I talked to Sean, the night before the terrorist attack, he told me, 'Mom, I am going to die,' Smith said.
'For all of this loss, for all of this grief, for all of the cynicism the tragedy in Benghazi has wrought upon America, I blame Hillary Clinton,' Smith said, as the crowd erupted into cheers.
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Smith has blasted Clinton in a series of TV interviews, and stayed true to form before a national TV audience and gathered delegates in Cleveland
Smith 'In an email to her daughter shortly after the attack, Hillary Clinton blamed it on terrorism. But when I saw Hillary Clinton at Sean's coffin ceremony, just days later, she looked me squarely in the eye and told me a video was responsible,' she said.
Then she hailed Donald Trump as someone who 'speaks his mind, and his heart.'
Smith's hit on Clinton from the convention stage was one of a series of attacks from family members of victims. The event also featured Mary Ann Mendoza, the mother of police sergeant killed by drunk driver who came here illegally, Sabine Durden, mother whose son was killed by unlicensed driver who came here illegally, and Jamiel Shaw, whose son was murdered by an illegal immigrant gang member.
- Pat Smith's son Sean died in the Benghazi attacks
- She skewered Hillary Clinton at the GOP convention for having told her an anti-American video was to blame for a mob that stormed the U.S. embassy compound
- 'She lied to me and then called me a liar'
- 'I blame Hillary Clinton'
- Smith has previously blasted Clinton for a conversation she said occurred when her son's coffin was returned to the U.S.
- Smith's comments preceded other grieving parents, including those who lost children to illegal immigrants who committed crimes
By GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN CLEVELAND, OHIO
PUBLISHED: 02:53, 19 July 2016 | UPDATED: 04:56, 19 July 2016
Pat Smith, whose son Sean Smith was the State Department information officer killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack, delivered an emotional speech at the Republican convention where she said Hillary Clinton should go to jail.
Smith delivered a lengthy indictment of the U.S. government's conduct during the hours while the attack was unfolding, then went right after Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump's opponent, for her conduct during and after the attack.
After a member of the crowd yelled out that Clinton had lied, Smith said: 'She lied to me and then called me a liar,' mentioning the solemn arrival ceremony when her son's coffin was returned to the U.S.
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Pat Smith (pictured) said she blames Hillary Clinton for the death of her son Sean in the Benghazi attacks
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Pat Smith's son Sean (pictured) was the State Department information officer killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack
'She looked me squarely in the eye and told me a video was responsible,' Smith said, repeating her charge that Clinton told her at the ceremony that an anti-American video motivated the attack.
Subsequent investigations found it was a terror attack on the compound rather than a spontaneous response to the video.
'How could she do this to me? How could she do this to any American family? Donald Trump is everything Hillary Clinton is not,' Smith said.
As she concluded her emotional remarks, Smith looked down on a printed sign held up by a member of the crowd that said 'HILLARY FOR PRISON!'
'That's right. Hillary for Prison. She deserves to be in stripes,' Smith said with emotion in her voice.
Smith has gone after Clinton in a series of TV interviews, including one in March after Clinton said in a Democratic debate that Smith was 'absolutely wrong' to say she lied.
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A convention attendee held up a 'Hillary for Prison' sign, prompting Smith to call for Clinton to be 'in stripes'
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Four Americans including Sean Smith died in the Benghazi attacks (pictured, the US consulate in flames in 2012)
'We were nose-to-nose at the coffin ceremony. She lied to me,' Smith told the Fox Business Network. 'She told me it was the fault of the video. I said 'are you sure?' She says, 'Yes, that's what it was. … It was the video.'
Clinton has denied Smith's claim.
She has said there is a 'special place in hell' for people like Clinton.
During her remarks before the convention crowd Smith spoke about her son as a 'wonderful son and father to my two amazing grandchildren, Samantha and Nathan, now 10 and 11.'
The crowd grew silent as she told her story. 'The last time I talked to Sean, the night before the terrorist attack, he told me, 'Mom, I am going to die,' Smith said.
'For all of this loss, for all of this grief, for all of the cynicism the tragedy in Benghazi has wrought upon America, I blame Hillary Clinton,' Smith said, as the crowd erupted into cheers.
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Smith has blasted Clinton in a series of TV interviews, and stayed true to form before a national TV audience and gathered delegates in Cleveland
Smith 'In an email to her daughter shortly after the attack, Hillary Clinton blamed it on terrorism. But when I saw Hillary Clinton at Sean's coffin ceremony, just days later, she looked me squarely in the eye and told me a video was responsible,' she said.
Then she hailed Donald Trump as someone who 'speaks his mind, and his heart.'
Smith's hit on Clinton from the convention stage was one of a series of attacks from family members of victims. The event also featured Mary Ann Mendoza, the mother of police sergeant killed by drunk driver who came here illegally, Sabine Durden, mother whose son was killed by unlicensed driver who came here illegally, and Jamiel Shaw, whose son was murdered by an illegal immigrant gang member.
