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Bill Clinton: “The people in both Congos in Africa went crazy. They said we…”

Featuring: Bill Clinton, Democratic | 42nd President of the United States | National

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Bill Clinton campaigning for Kamala Harris in Phoenix

Published | Video Starts at 08:21

He added to the number murderers loose on the American populace. Some of them came from the Congo. That sounds forbidding. Heart of Darkness. And The people in both Congos in Africa went crazy. They said we had never opened our jails, and we sure had never sent anybody to America. He just made it up because it sounded scary. And they said, we know what happened. Then it turned out the truth started to trickle out, always inconvenient for their campaign. (08:21–08:29)

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Asserts that the Congos denied releasing prisoners to the U.S.

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