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US election 2016: Orlando shooting sparks furious attacks on campaign trail

Here's what happened on the campaign trail the week of June 13.
The names of Pulse night club shooting victims are embroidered on a U.S. flag at a makeshift memorial in Orlando, Florida, U.S., June 17, 2016.  REUTERS/Carlo Allegri - RTX2GV5Z

A radicalized gunman murdered 49 people last weekend, and the nastiest election in recent memory got even nastier.

Any lingering hope that the nation would come together like it did after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks evaporated when Donald Trump took to Twitter on June 12 soon after the gay nightclub shooting in Orlando to say that he "appreciate[d] the congrats for being right about radical Islamic terrorism." The Republican presidential candidate went on to urge President Barack Obama to "resign in disgrace" for not blaming "radical Islam" for the attack.

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