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On 9 August 2016 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump was widely criticized for a comment he made about Hillary Clinton that was widely interpreted as an incitement to violence against his presidential rival: That controversy prompted counter-claims that Hillary Clinton herself had once made similar comments in 2008 by referencing assassinated 1968 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in a discussion about her race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination against Barack Obama. Although many people following the 2016 presidential race didn't know or recall whether any such thing had occurred, the comment attributed to Clinton remains widely verifiable online in archived 2008 campaign news. The remark in question was originally made to the editorial board of a newspaper in May 2008 in response to questions about why Clinton remained in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination seemingly past the point of having any real chance of winning it: The 2016 resurrection of that remark was often accompanied by suggestions that Clinton had skated by with little criticism for her insensitive and heartless comment, while Donald Trump was widely pilloried for his ominous aside. That wasn't an accurate assessment, however, as the New York Times reported at the time: Also among the critics of Clinton's comments at the time was angry former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann: Moreover, while Donald Trump has so far offered no apology for his remark, Hillary Clinton promptly did so back in 2008:
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