US ambassador repeated debunked claim that Abedin has 'egregious' ties to Muslim Brotherhood

Source: The Hill


BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 01/09/18 11:24 AM EST

The U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands said in 2016 that longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin had "egregious" ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, according to a new report.

Fact checkers have found that claim to be false.

Pete Hokestra also said at the time there were more examples of links between the U.S. government and the Muslim Brotherhood.

"We need to recognize that a lot more has come out about Huma and a lot of this stuff has been known by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, and I've talked with Steve (Emerson) about this extensively," Pete Hoekstra said at a 2016 conference, according to CNN's KFile.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/368084-us-ambassador-to-netherlands-once-said-huma-abedin-had-egregious-ties