WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave an aggressive response to the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, quickly claiming the attack was the work of an Islamist militant while calling on President Barack Obama to resign and for Democrat Hillary Clinton to exit the presidential race.
For Trump, it was an attempt to frame the attack in Orlando in a light favourable to his campaign for the Nov. 8 presidential election.
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