As I noted yesterday, Bill Clinton has only added to the falsehoods surrounding his wives 1996 trip to Bosnia, which the candidate claimed was a harrowing experience with sniper fire and much peril. The AP chronicles the latest falsehoods, this time coming from the Former President’s defense of his wife. From the Associated Press:

THE FACTS:

Bill Clinton has many of the facts wrong.

His wife didn’t make the sniper fire claim “one time late at night when she was exhausted.” She actually told the story several times, including during prepared remarks on foreign policy delivered the morning of March 17.

It’s also not true that she “immediately apologized for it.” Clinton has never apologized for the comments and only acknowledged that she “misspoke” a week after the March 17 speech when video of her peaceful tarmac reception emerged.

It’s also not true that she was the “first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone” - a claim that Hillary Clinton has also made when talking about the trip. Pat Nixon traveled to Saigon during the Vietnam war and Barbara Bush went to Saudi Arabia two months before the launching of Desert Storm.

The trip also was not in 1995, but 1996.

Additionally it has been revealed that Senator Clinton has silenced her husband on the subject. From AFP:

“Hillary called me and said ‘You don’t remember this. You weren’t there, let me handle it.’ I said, ‘Yes ma’am,” the grinning ex-president said during a campaign stop in Indiana, according to television pictures.

I have to say, it is somewhat embarrassing and mystifying watching these two.