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Pence defends military mom’s right to criticize Trump
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Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence defended a military mom’s right to criticize Donald Trump’s comments about the Muslim parents of a slain U.S. Army veteran during a campaign stop in Nevada, and then lashed out at the media’s coverage of the controversy at the next. Pence quieted a crowd that was booing a woman…
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Trump suggests general election could be ‘rigged’
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested Monday that he fears the general election “is going to be rigged” – an unprecedented assertion by a modern presidential candidate. Trump’s extraordinary claim – one he did not back up with any immediate evidence – would, if it became more than just an offhand comment, seem to threaten…
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Gold Star families to Trump: Apologize for comments to Khans
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Their sons were killed in Iraq about a week apart. So when Karen Meredith heard the grieving parents of a decorated Muslim Army officer being belittled by Donald Trump, she cried. Meredith said she hadn’t wept over her son’s death for a long time, but the Republican presidential nominee “ripped the wounds right open again.”…
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GOP senators joining criticism of Trump over attacks on parents of Muslim soldier
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Fellow Republicans are joining the rising chorus of criticism of Donald Trump for his disparagement of the bereaved parents of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim who was awarded a Bronze Star after he was killed in 2004 in Iraq. The roll of GOP senators publicly taking Trump to task reached at least five…
