If Hillary Clinton’s self-told life story seems improbable, fact checkers agree with you.
She claims to not only have tried to enlist in the Marines, she also claims she tried to become an astronaut.
As Hot Air reminds us, in a March 20, 2102 speech celebrating Amelia Earhart, Clinton claimed:
“Now, some of you may know that when I was a little girl growing up in Illinois, I was interested in all kinds of stories about women. And my mother … actually told me about Amelia Earhart. And then when we decided, under President Kennedy’s leadership, that our nation was going to go to the moon and we were going to have an astronaut program, I wanted to be an astronaut. So when I was about 13, I wrote to NASA and asked what I needed to do to try to be an astronaut. And of course, there weren’t any women astronauts, and NASA wrote me back and said there would not be any women astronauts. And I was just crestfallen. But then I realized I couldn’t see very well, and I wasn’t all that athletic, so probably, I wouldn’t be the first woman astronaut anyway.”
Fact-checkers cast doubt on her latest improbable story.
“The majority of the letters they found from NASA were actually encouraging in tone and seemed to express gratitude that anyone would be interested in them at that point,” Hot Air reports. “Defenders of Hillary’s claim are citing a so called ‘Miss Kelly letter’ which once showed up on Reddit but has since disappeared.”
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