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Pence defends military mom’s right to criticize Trump
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’
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
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
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…