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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally Saturday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Charlie Neibergall, AP)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: AP)
Republican presidential candidate<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Donald Trump on<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Sunday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>hit back on Hillary Clinton's claim that Islamic jihadists are using his anti-Muslim rhetoric as a recruiting tool, calling the Democrat a "liar" and a string of other insults.
At the heart of the dispute: Clinton's contention during Saturday night's Democratic debate that Trump is "becoming ISIS' best recruiter."
"They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists," Clinton<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said during the televised debate on ABC.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"So I want to explain why this is not in America's interest to react with this kind of fear and respond to this sort of bigotry."
While experts say it's likely<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that Trump's call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States could be used by ISIS, independent fact-checkers have not found evidence of videos as described by Clinton.
"It's nonsense.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>It's just another Hillary lie," Trump said on NBC's Meet the Press. "She lies like crazy about everything, whether it's trips where she was being gunned down in a helicopter or an airplane, she's a liar and everybody knows that.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>But she just made this up in thin air."
But, under questioning from Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, Trump said he<span style="color: Red;">*</span>would not tone down his language, even if he discovered his words were being used in recruitment videos.
"I think that my words represent toughness and strength," he said.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"Hillary's not strong, Hillary's weak, frankly.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>She's got no stamina, she's not nothing."
On Sunday, Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri said her boss was not "referring to a specific video" and added that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>groups monitoring ISIS say that Trump already<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>social media<span style="color: Red;">*</span>propaganda tool for jihadists. Palmieri spoke on ABC's This Week.
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