Group Flags Clinton’s Challenges with the Truth

A conservative activist who has been trying to highlight Hillary Clinton’s honesty problem said Friday the issue will haunt her: He has started a Super PAC designed to ensure it doesn’t go away.

Doug Truax, a former Senate candidate from Illinois, said on “The Laura Ingraham Show” with guest host Raymond Arroyo that he started the Restoration PAC to keep Hillary’s untrustworthiness front and center this year.

Clinton somehow managed to get through a contentious two-hour debate with Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday night without facing a single question about her most vulnerable issues — the FBI investigation into her handling of sensitive emails and the attack in Benghazi, Libya. Which is why Truax’s effort is needed.

The Super PAC runs a website, canttrusthillary.com, which features a timeline of the events of Sept. 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Clinton and other administration officials maintained publicly and to relatives of the victims that the attacks were a spontaneous outburst of rage by Muslims who were angered over an obscure Internet film.

“She’s got a real trust problem, and I think this Benghazi thing is the worst example of it,” Truax said Friday morning.

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“I’m trying to speak up on behalf of military folks, who at least I know, and I think a majority of the military, would say, ‘If we have a commander in chief who actually would lie to our family members after we’re gone,’ (then) she’s not qualified to hold this job,” he said. “It goes to trust.”

The scandals did not get any airtime on the PBS debate Thursday, and Sanders has been reluctant to press the issue on the campaign trail. But Clinton’s legal problems appear to be getting worse. The FBI recently confirmed she is the target of the probe.

And the State Department issued subpoenas to the Clinton Foundation last fall seeking information about activities that may have presented a conflict of interest while Clinton was secretary of state. The subpoenas asked for information about longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who simultaneously in 2012 worked for the State Department, the foundation, Clinton’s personal office and a private consulting firm with ties to Clinton.

“It just goes on and on,” Truax said. “It’s just part of a larger picture with her. And I think we’re seeing it now in the younger vote that didn’t necessarily have any history with Monica Lewinsky and everything else.”

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Truax said he believe it is why voters — particularly younger voters — are gravitating to Sanders.

“They crave authenticity and they hate hypocrisy,” he said.

The Clinton campaign long has viewed South Carolina, dominated by black voters who are supportive of her and have backed her husband, as a “firewall” should Sanders do well in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Truax questioned that conventional wisdom.

“I don’t know if it will quite get to the level that it probably should, based on her lies,” he said. “But by the same token, with the minority population, I think there’s an element of people starting to peel off to Sanders.”