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In 2014, then-college student Hoda Muthana lied to her parents about going on a school trip and ran away to join the ISIS terrorist group. Now, after spending years with a terrorist group that has attacked America, she’s pleading to come back home and says “therapy” should be her punishment. This is who CBS foreign correspondent Holly Williams decided to sympathize with on Wednesday’s CBS Evening News.
Williams appeared to side with Muthana after President Trump tweeted “that he'd instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the country,” and “[t]he State Department said Muthana had no right to return because she, quote, ‘is not a U.S. Citizen.’”
“But Muthana's family say she is an American citizen. They've given us a copy of what they claim is her birth certificate, showing she was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1994, and they say she held a U.S. passport,” Williams explained. She then unironically hyped a tweet Muthana posted bragging about throwing her passport into a “bonfire”, while her tweeter handle was “Umm Jihad”. You can’t make this stuff up.
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