Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lied in her convention acceptance speech last week when she claimed to have helped a disabled girl get into school, political analyst Dick Morris tells Newsmax TV.
Clinton in her Thursday convention speech repeated a story from her 2008 book "Living History." She told of gathering data on children in New Bedford, Mass., in 1973, that led to children with disabilities being allowed to attend school.
"So I went to work for the Children's Defense Fund, going door-to-door in New Bedford, Mass., on behalf of children with disabilities who were denied the chance to go to school," Clinton said. "I remember meeting a young girl in a wheelchair on the small back porch of her house. She told me how badly she wanted to go to school — it just didn't seem possible in those days."
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But SouthCoastToday.com reports that John Markey, a Democrat who was mayor at the time, disputes that story. Disabled students did have access to schools in 1973, though it was not always a school in their neighborhood, he said.
"They were always transported as far as I know," Markey said.
"So Hillary made a big deal about that in her speech, and it turns out it is just another Hillary lie," Morris told Newsmax's Steve Malzberg and J.D. Hayworth. "It's not suspicious, it's a damn lie."
Morris is the author of the book "Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary" with Eileen McGann, which is the No. 1 nonfiction book in the United States, based on Amazon.com ratings, and has debuted at No. 4 on the Aug. 7 New York Times nonfiction list.
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