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The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Congressman echoes Trump’s claim that Clinton aides deserved to die

Congressman Jim Jordan.
Congressman Jim Jordan. Photograph: Brian Cahn/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Anti-hate speech activists have condemned the Republican US congressman Jim Jordan for his apparent endorsement of Donald Trump’s declaration that members of Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff should have been executed.

Jordan asserted on Fox & Friends that the former president was “right on target” when he accused Clinton’s aides of spying on him, and that in another time in US history their “crime would have been punishable by death”.

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