Donald Trump has invited the mother of a State Department employee who was killed in the 2012 Benghazi attacks, to attend the final presidential debate Wednesday, The Hill reported.
Trump's campaign confirmed that Pat Smith, mother of Sean Smith, will be one of its guests.
Smith confirmed to Yahoo News that she had been invited by the Trump campaign and believes that she will be seated in the front row.
Smith gave an emotional speech during the Republican National Convention blaming Hillary Clinton for her son's death. "I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son," she was quoted as saying.
She also accused the Democratic presidential candidate of lying to families about what sparked the 2012 attack that killed four Americans.
Republicans have tried to make Benghazi a central issue in the campaign. Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a Trump advisor, said that the campaign hopes Clinton will provide answers for the death of four Americans in the Benghazi attacks.
"I want to look in Hillary's eyes and have her lie to me again," Smith told Yahoo News.
This is not the first time the Trump campaign has come up with such a plan. Ahead of the second presidential debate, the billionaire businessman had invited the three women, who had accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment and assault, to sit in the Trump family box.
According to the plan, the women were supposed to make an entry at the same time as the former president and confront him, The Washington Times reported.
The plan was thwarted by the Commission on Presidential Debates.
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