Hillary Fires Back at McCarthy’s ‘Deeply Distressing’ Benghazi Comments

Earlier today, House Speaker hopeful Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) attributed Hillary Clinton’s falling poll numbers to the hearings surrounding the then-Secretary of State’s response to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. Now, in excerpts from a new interview Clinton did with MSNBC’s Al Sharpton, she is pushing back hard.

“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” McCarthy said on Fox News. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable.”

Asked to respond to those comments on Wednesday, Clinton said, “I have to tell you, I find them deeply distressing.”

Watch video below, via MSNBC:

“When I hear a statement like that, which demonstrates unequivocally that this was always meant to be a partisan political exercise,” Clinton added, “I feel like it does a grave disservice and dishonors not just the memory of the four that we lost but of everybody who has served our country.”

In an official statement from the Clinton campaign put out this morning, a spokesperson called McCarthy’s comments “a damning display of honesty by the possible next speaker of the House” that “confirms Americans’ worst suspicions about what goes on in Washington.”

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