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Trump Campaign Says Clinton Launched Political Career by Pardoning Puerto Rican Terrorists

October 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton's role in pardoning a Puerto Rican terrorist group for personal gain at the outset of her political career is the subject of a new video from the Donald Trump campaign.

The FALN, the Spanish initials for the Armed Forces of National Liberation, committed more than 100 bombing attacks in the 1970s and 1980s against political and military installations in the U.S., including one that killed Joseph Connor's father, Frank, in 1975. Several members of the group were granted clemency by President Bill Clinton in 1999, a controversial decision even at the time. According to the video, law enforcement officials across multiple levels opposed such a move.

Hillary Clinton, who was gearing up for her 2000 run for the U.S. Senate in New York, was approached by Puerto Rican leaders in the state, and her husband granted clemency two days later.

"Hillary Clinton launched her political career letting terrorists off the hook," a black card reads at the outset.

"I know Hillary Clinton didn't murder my father, but I do know that she didn't respect his life and didn't respect the fact that he had a family," Connor says.

"The fact that the Clintons, again, granted this sort of clemency without any real reason ... just shows how the rules don't really apply," retired FBI agent Rick Hahn says. "Other than the terrorists themselves benefiting from this, there's only one other person that would have, and that would be Hillary Clinton getting that Latino vote in New York State."

Connor says the clemencies and his father's life were a "political tool" to Hillary Clinton.

"She uses Americans as a political tool, and she's got to be stopped," he says.