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Backlash Grows Over Trump's Comments on Dead Muslim Soldier’s Parents

Democrat Hillary Clinton says it’s unacceptable to “scapegoat” on the basis of religion or ethnicity.
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Political Contempt in the Race to the White House

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Donald Trump resumed his war of words with the parents of a fallen Muslim-American soldier, writing on Twitter that by questioning whether the soldier's mother was “allowed” to speak at the Democratic National Committee because of her Muslim faith, he was making an understandable response to having been “viciously attacked” during her husband's speech.

Campaigning in Cleveland, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton seized on her Republican opponent's weekend of troubles to ram home a point about him.