Donald Trump Featured in New Al Qaeda Affiliate Recruitment Video

While Hillary Clinton’s claim that Trump was “ISIS’s best recruiter” may not have been totally verifiable a few weeks ago, she didn’t have to wait long for that to change. A newly released video from Al Shabab—Somalia’s resident Al Qaeda affiliate—uses footage of Trump spouting deeply Islamophobic rhetoric as a direct recruitment tool for its terrorist organization.



In the video, old clips of Anwar al Awlaki, who was killed by an American drone in 2011, warns “Muslims of the West” that the U.S. is about to become a land of “religious discrimination and concentration camps.” The video then cuts to a clip of what’s become a typical Donald Trump stump speech, in which he says:
Now, listen. Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.