Lew Rockwell: First of all it is hilarious. Despite the Clinton’s campaign’s claim that this was just open to the public – nobody gets that close to a candidate through secret service and so forth, unless they are known. The people especially behind the candidate are always very carefully chosen for “diversity reasons,” etc.
He said he was invited. Of course he was invited. This was a signal on the part of the Clinton campaign to the immigrant masses that they should all support her. But it quite wonderfully backfired. Some of us think if this guy hadn’t been brought to the US by the US government, and apparently he was, because of his Afghan connections, political connections; his hate for Pakistan, and so forth, all those people in Orlando would still be alive. The idea that this guy is… there is some kind of icon of the Clinton campaign. Well, it is really all you need to know about the Clinton campaign.
RT: What kind of effect do you think it will have on Clinton’s campaign?
LR: Who knows. If Trump is smart, and he is smart, he’ll make a big deal of it. But it is just a part of the rest of it. We learned today that Julian Assange is offering a $20,000 reward to investigate the death of this DNC murdered staffer. The implication being, and sort of a lot of people think he was the one who leaked the DNC e-mails. Was he killed for that? There is all kinds of bad stuff.
I know the typical Americans seem to think that this sort of conduct only goes on in Montenegro, or whatever. It happens here too. The Clintons have got a long list of bodies in their wake. So the fact that they would promote this guy – Mr. Mateen – hold him up as a symbol to people that are interested in these sorts of links, blew up in their face. My guess is this was not Clinton’s personal decision. Although, you can’t really know – she is very, very much a detailed person, so we can’t rule that out. But somebody high in the campaign invited him in, brought him there, put him in that very prominent position, where he was in the frame of her during her speech – quite an amazing thing and sort of as a peek into the heart, if I can use that word of Hillary Clinton.
