claim: says hillary clinton "lied about why her parents named her hillary."
author: mitch mcconnell
evidence_1: hillary clinton once said she was named after famed mountain climber sir  edmund hillary, but she wasn't. ... didn't say she was actually named for the  mountain climber, but rather that her mother told her she was named for him — a  minor but important distinction given how often parents either make up harmless  little fibs to ...
evidence_2: nov 28, 2015 ... to hear hillary clinton tell it, she was named for sir edmund hillary, the  conqueror of mount everest — even though she was already 6 years old when ...  said safire: “she is in the longtime habit of lying; and she has never been called  to account for lying herself or in suborning lying in her aides and friends.
evidence_3: jul 19, 2016 ... say her name, say her name. mcconnell summed up clinton's track record like  this: "she lied about her emails, she lied about her server, she lied about  benghazi, she lied about sniper fire, why, she even lied about why her parents  named her hillary." we've taken a look at most of those claims (her emails ...
evidence_4: jul 24, 2016 ... senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was indulging in some oratorical  hyperbole in cleveland when he said of clinton: “she lied about her emails. she  lied about her server. she lied about benghazi. she lied about sniper fire. she  even lied about why her parents named her hillary.” but he also had a ...
evidence_5: oct 17, 2006 ... in 1995, shortly after meeting sir edmund, mrs. clinton said that her mother,  dorothy rodham, had long told her she was named for the famous mountaineer.  “it had two l's, which is how she thought she was supposed to spell hillary,” mrs.  clinton said at the time, after meeting sir edmund. “so when i was ...