Father of Slain Service Member Wants One Presidential Candidate to Apologize

CNN went hunting for comments Tuesday about a presidential candidate who owes an apology to the family of a slain U.S. service member.

The network got them, but probably not in the fashion for which it had hoped.

CNN Newsroom featured Charles Woods, the father of Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, who was killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack. During the interview, CNN host Carol Costello repeatedly tried to get Woods to call for Donald Trump to apologize for his ongoing spat with Khizir Khan, the father of a slain Army officer, attacked Trump at last week’s Democratic National Convention, sparking a heated response from Trump that has since become controversial.

After playing a clip about the Khan spat, Costello asked Woods, “Should Mr. Trump apologize?”

Woods repeated an earlier statement that he didn’t know what Trump had said, then fired out a demand for an apology he knew was overdue.

“I know who should apologize, and that would be Hillary Clinton, for lying to the American families who lost their loved ones as well as to the American public,” Woods said. “She hasn’t apologized for that yet. In fact, she’s even doubled down and called us liars which is not appropriate, not at all. Like I say, either she’s lying or she has a bad memory.”

Costello then asked Woods whom he would endorse.

“Well, my son would still be alive if Mrs. Clinton was performing her job properly as secretary of state. So in good conscience, I cannot vote for the person who was directly responsible for the death of my son,” he said.

He then explained his reasoning

“There is only two choices and obviously I support Donald Trump. The main reason is because national security, as well as the economy, are the two most important issues that voters are going to have to decide upon next November,” he said.

Woods has made it clear he has not forgiven Clinton for telling him that the Benghazi attack was related to a video when she knew it was not.

“She (Clinton) stood in font of my son’s casket and blamed the rage directed at American embassies on a video she said we had no part of,” Woods said Tuesday on America’s Newsroom. “When they had the casket ceremony she also lied to the American public. These are her words as best as I can recall, ‘rage was directed at American embassies as a result of that awful video that we were not responsible for.’ She said basically the same thing in private to the families that were grieving and then a half hour later she said basically the same thing as far as causation to the American public.” (For more from the author of “Father of Slain Service Member Wants One Presidential Candidate to Apologize” please click HERE)

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