Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton flubbed her family history Wednesday, saying that all of her grandparents had immigrated to America when public records show that just one came to the United States as a child, BuzzFeed reports.
Speaking at an event in Iowa on her first campaign swing since announcing her candidacy, she spun a tale of an all-immigrant grandparent heritage at Capital City Fruit in Norwalk.
"All my grandparents, you know, came over here, and you know my grandfather went to work in a lace mill in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and worked there until he retired at 65," Clinton said, referring to paternal grandfather Hugh Rodham Sr.
"He started there when he was a teenager and just kept going. So, I sit here and I think, well, you're talking about the second, third generation. That's me, that's you."
Clinton has previously talked about her grandmother immigrating.
But BuzzFeed reports that the former secretary of state's sole foreign-born grandparent was the senior Hugh Rodham.
"Her grandparents always spoke about the immigrant experience, and as a result she has always thought of them as immigrants," a Clinton spokesman told BuzzFeed.
"As has been correctly pointed out, while her grandfather was an immigrant, it appears that Hillary's grandmother was born shortly after her parents and siblings arrived in the U.S. in the early 1880s."
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4 comments:
So, just chalk it up as another lie. At this point, what difference does it make?
and we should expect anything else From this liar? These clintons are an evil deceitful bunch.
I'll give her the benefit of the doubt that she got confused in the fog of war, when her helicopter was coming under fire.
It could happen to any us.
During her 1st. presidential run she was caught in the lie about her name "Hilary" and dozens of others, but no one seems to care.
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