ALL SHAM, NO WOW: ABC: Obama Hasn’t Kept Promise to Make Donation to ISIS Victim’s Foundation.
Nearly a year-and-a-half after President Obama promised Islamic State terrorism victim Kayla Mueller’s family he would contribute to a foundation set up in her memory, no such donation has been made, ABC News reported Friday.
On March 13, 2015, Obama told Carl and Marsha Mueller he would contribute to the foundation set up in her name, but, in an interview airing on Good Morning America, the parents said with disappointment that it had not occurred.
Kayla Mueller was doing humanitarian aid work in Syria in 2013 when she was snatched by ISIS, the fanatical Islamic terrorist organization bent on establishing a global caliphate. While ISIS videotaped the beheadings of three American men, the plight of “the girl left behind” was, according to ABC reporter Brian Ross, a closely kept secret.
Mueller’s parents did behind-the-scenes work to try to free Mueller, trading 27 emails and sending the group videos pleading for her release. Ultimately, ISIS gave them an ultimatum: pay the $6.2 million ransom or receive pictures of their daughter’s dead body.
The White House, the Muellers said, threatened them with prosecution if they did pay the ransom. In the end, she was killed.
“Later, when the president came to Arizona to console them, the Muellers say he made a promise to help the donation they set up in Kayla’s name, and then broke it,” Ross said.
Carl Mueller said Obama told them it would be an anonymous donation, but he would do it.
“I’m still waiting,” he said.
“There hasn’t been such a donation?” Ross asked.
“No. I’m still waiting for that donation, Mr. President,” Mueller said. “You see the flag at my driveway. It’s not something I take lightly, talking about our president that way, but that’s what he said.”
To be fair, he says a lot of things.