A super PAC opposing Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has released a new video featuring the gravestone of former Ambassador Chris Stevens, one of four Americans killed in the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks.
Stop Hillary PAC tweeted the ad and indicated its intention to promote the video during the first Democratic presidential debate on CNN.
“Dear Hillary Clinton, I’d like to ask you why you ignored calls for help in Benghazi and then four Americans were murdered,” a narrator can be heard saying while images of the four dead Americans appear on screen.
The ad is titled, “I’d like to ask,” but closes with a narrator saying, “But Mrs. Clinton I can’t. What difference does it make?” as Stevens’ image appears followed by a picture of a gravestone bearing Stevens’ name.
Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted out the image of the gravestone with the word “disgusting.”
Republicans have suffered from the notion that the House Select Committee on Benghazi’s investigation into the events surrounding the terrorist attack has partisan motivations, especially in light of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s comments touting the committee’s political impact on the Democratic presidential race. The committee’s chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., has repeatedly denied such claims.
