GOP candidates rip Clinton on Benghazi
Several GOP presidential candidates on Friday went after Hillary Clinton on the issue of Benghazi after the Democratic front-runner’s testimony the previous day on the attack.
“She never answered a fundamental question,” businesswoman Carly Fiorina told George Stephanopoulos during an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America.”
{mosads}”And the fundamental question is this: Knowing that this was a purposeful terrorist attack on the night it occurred, why did you go the next morning and address the American people and talk about a videotape? … And why did you continue to do that over the bodies of the fallen, and for many weeks after?” Fiorina said.
Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), interviewed on CNN’s “New Day,” focused on the requests for additional security before the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya, which Clinton said during her testimony was handled at a lower level.
“I don’t think it’s good for her. I’ve always said that she’s going to have a tough time convincing the American public that she will defend our country because she sent an ambassador into harms way and didn’t provide him with adequate defense,” Paul said.
Donald Trump, who has led in polls for the Republican presidential nomination for the past three months, said Thursday evening on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show that he had only watched Clinton’s opening remarks in her marathon testimony but that they sounded “terrible.”
Clinton escaped mostly unscathed from Thursday’s hearing before the House panel investigating Benghazi, as the most intense moments of the day came between Democrats and Republicans on the committee while the former secretary of State largely kept her cool.
“I wanted to rise above partisanship and reach for statesmanship,” Clinton said Friday during a women’s leadership forum hosted by the Democratic National Committee.
“I think she did reasonably well,” Fiorina said Friday morning on ABC.
“I think it demonstrates that she won’t be held accountable until we have a nominee in a general election debate who will hold her accountable,” Fiorina said.
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