Donald Trump brushes off use of his words in extremist recruitment video

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When a militant group makes a video using your comments to attract recruits, you might be concerned about the image you're putting out into the world -- unless you're Donald Trump.

The Republican primary candidate is brushing off the use of his words against Muslims in a new video by an al-Qaida affiliate, known as al-Shabaab.

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Trump framed the turn of events as normal, predicting that "all" extremists will try to capitalize on the words of a Republican presidential front-runner.

Al-Shabbab, not ISIS, just made a video on me - they all will as front-runner & if I speak out against them, which I must. Hillary lied!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2016

The new 51-minute video shows Trump calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the U.S.

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton recently claimed without evidence that another extremist group, the Islamic State, has been using video of Trump in its propaganda.

Trump says the emergence since then of the al-Shabaab video doesn't change the fact she was wrong.

"It wasn't ISIS and it wasn't made at the time, and she lied," he said on Fox & Friends on Sunday. Trump also threw in a dig at President Bill Clinton in a tweet on the subject.

Hillary Clinton lied last week when she said ISIS made a D.T. video. The video that ISIS made was about her husband being a degenerate.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2016

Additional reporting by the Associated Press

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