Trump video intercuts Clinton laughing while Benghazi burns

Jeremy Diamond
By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
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Updated 6:22 PM EDT, Tue May 10, 2016
Angry demonstrators rip the American flag from the United States Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, on August 19, 1974, during a demonstration against American policy on Cyprus. Rodger Davies, the U.S. ambassador to Cyprus, was killed by gunfire during the incident.
Angry demonstrators rip the American flag from the United States Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, on August 19, 1974, during a demonstration against American policy on Cyprus. Rodger Davies, the U.S. ambassador to Cyprus, was killed by gunfire during the incident.
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Rescue workers carry Susan Francisca Murianki, a U.S. Embassy office worker, over the rubble of a collapsed building next to the embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, on August 7, 1998. A huge explosion tore through the embassy around the exact same time a bomb went off at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Laurence Foley, an employee of the U.S. Agency for International Development, receives an achievement award from U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Edward Gnehm, right, and USAID Mission Director Toni Christiansen-Wagner in October 2002. Two months later, Foley was shot dead by a lone gunman outside his home in Amman, Jordan.
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The short clip includes testimony from three family members of the victims of the attack

Trump has repeatedly criticized Clinton over her handling of the Benghazi attacks

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Donald Trump on Tuesday posted a clip on Instagram that depicts Hillary Clinton blaming the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on an online anti-Muslim video.

The short clip, which features doctored footage of Clinton laughing over images of flames in Benghazi, includes testimony from three family members of the victims of the attack who say Clinton told them the video provoked the attack.

“We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video,” Clinton says at the top of the video in footage of her remarks after following the attack.

The State Department has since acknowledged that there was no connection between what was later determined to be a pre-planned attack on the U.S. consulate and the online video, which sparked protests in other parts of the Middle East. Initial reports suggested the video might have sparked protests and the attack on the consulate.

Clinton “lied to me. She told me it was the fault of the video,” says Patricia Smith, mother of slain State Department information officer Sean Smith, in a clip from an interview with Fox Business Network.

The video also includes footage of Charles Woods, the father of CIA contractor Tyrone Woods, claiming Clinton told him, “we are going to have the filmmaker arrested who is responsible for the death of your son.”

Clinton has since said she never blamed the attacks on the online video in her meetings with the families of the Benghazi victims.

Trump has repeatedly criticized Clinton over her handling of the Benghazi attacks, suggesting that Clinton did not do enough to prevent the attack or mitigate the damage of the attacks.

He has also previously used footage of Clinton laughing over flames in past Instagram videos he has posted attacking the former secretary of state.