Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) spoke out against Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday, jokingly implying the illness, fainting and concussion that prevented her from testifying in the Benghazi hearings that day might have been avoidance tactics instead of actual sickness.
“I’m not a doctor, but it seems as though the Secretary of State has come down with a case of Benghazi flu,” West said on “Fox and Friends.”
Clinton was scheduled to speak at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Benghazi hearings on Thursday, but following her fainting incident last week, was advised by chairman Sen. John Kerry not to testify. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Thomas Nides presented at the hearings instead.
Rep. West said Clinton should testify because there were still many unanswered questions.
“I don’t think that this should become the new normal and the next thing you know, four years from now, we have Hillary Clinton running for president when we had this death of the ambassador, two former Navy SEALs and a foreign service officer,” West said.
The Florida Congressman was not the only one to call Clinton’s illness into question. Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton spoke on FOX‘s “On the Record” on Tuesday and implied that Clinton had a “diplomatic illness,” something used when “you don’t want to go to a meeting or a conference or an event.”
“She may not be testifying this week, but she’s not going to escape it forever,” Bolton said.
(h/t The Huffington Post)
