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Video Is Evidence That Hillary Clinton Is A Reptile.

Old video of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is circulating online, and some social media users are making cold-blooded claims.

A Dec. 16 Instagram reel shows video clips and photos of Clinton that suggest she is not human, but a reptile.

At one point, the video shows side-by-side photos of Clinton with her mouth open and a snake with its mouth open. In Clinton's photo, there appears to be a dark spot on her tongue, which the video claims is a glottis, a small opening that "allows reptilians to breathe while swallowing large prey."

The Instagram post's caption reads, "Nothing to see here, just another conspiracy."

(Screengrab from Instagram)

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The video begins with a clip of Clinton drinking water on stage. As she raises a glass to her lips, green globs drop into the water. Text on the video reads, "That's not regular mucus…."

But a reverse-image search found that this video of Clinton had been edited. During a September 2016 campaign event in Cleveland, Ohio, Clinton started coughing on stage. She drank water multiple times to clear her throat, but no green mucus came out, as the video claimed.

The photo of Clinton that appears to show a dark spot on her tongue is also edited. This photo is of Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, where she was selected as the Democratic presidential nominee. In the original footage of the event, there's no dark spot.

Other photos of Clinton in the video were similarly edited to give the impression that she is a reptile. In two photos, Clinton's eyes were made to look like a snake's eyes.

This is not the first time such a claim has surfaced. In 2009, Richard Heene, who fabricated a story that his son had floated away in a UFO-shaped balloon, also made false statements about Clinton being reptilian.

Claims that high-profile people are reptilian are unfounded and part of a long-running conspiracy theory. PolitiFact has debunked similar claims about President Joe Biden, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and Queen Elizabeth II after her death in 2022.

We rate the claim that video is evidence that Clinton is a reptile Pants on Fire!

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Austrian Court Acquits Blackwater Founder And 4 Others Over Export Of Modified Crop-spraying Planes

An Austrian court has acquitted five people, including the founder of the Blackwater security firm, who were accused of exporting two crop-spraying aircraft that were allegedly refitted for military purposes without the necessary permits

ByThe Associated Press

December 14, 2023, 7:25 AM

BERLIN -- An Austrian court on Thursday acquitted five people, including the founder of the Blackwater security firm, who were accused of exporting two crop-spraying aircraft that were allegedly refitted for military purposes without the necessary permits.

The state court in Wiener Neustadt found that the modified aircraft were not "war material," the Austria Press Agency reported. It also found that the defendants had acted "very prudently" and sought advice on export permits.

The trial stemmed from an investigation into a local company, Airborne Technologies GmbH, which fits out aircraft with sensors and other equipment.

Prosecutors said that two Ayres Thrush agricultural aircraft were equipped with armor, extra tanks and a special camera that could be used for marking and illuminating targets. They said one was sent to Malta in 2014, with Kenya as its declared destination, and landed in troubled South Sudan, while the other was sent to Bulgaria in 2015.

The defendants were accused of violating Austria's law on war material by exporting such equipment without permission. One of the defendants, an Australian pilot, was accused of flying the two planes across Austria's borders, while the four other defendants allegedly participated in the deal. They were Blackwater founder Erik Prince, two managers at Airborne Technologies and a trained pilot who allegedly was an adviser.

All pleaded not guilty when the trial opened last month, and a defense lawyer said that the modifications to the aircraft were innocuous. He said the first plane was always destined for Kenya but made a landing in South Sudan due to technical problems.

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