While campaigning in Iowa today, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stood by her claim that ISIS operatives are using Republican front-runner Donald Trump in recruitment videos for the terrorist organization.
"If you go on Arabic television, as we have, and you look at what is being blasted out, video of Mr. Trump being translated into Arabic, no Muslims coming into the United States, other kinds of derogatory, defamatory statements," Clinton said. "It is playing into the hands of the violent jihadists."
At last Saturday's presidential debate, Clinton asserted that Trump was "becoming ISIS's best recruiter."
"They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists," she said during the debate.
Clinton offered no specific evidence of the claim, and subsequently her campaign communications director, Jen Palmieri, said Clinton wasn't referring to a specific video.
"She’s not referring to a specific video, but he is being used in social media by ISIS as propaganda,” Palmieri told ABC News on Sunday.
In Iowa today, Clinton told her audience: "There is nothing they want more than to be able to claim that the United States is against Islam and against Muslims. And that then lights an even bigger fire for them to make their propaganda claims through social media in other ways. It also does something else. Our first line of defense in our country has to be Muslim Americans."
ABC News' John Verhovek contributed to this report.
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