TRUMP: CLINTON ‘LIES LIKE CRAZY’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hit back Sunday after Hillary Clinton said Islamic jihadists use his antiMuslim rhetoric as a recruiting tool, calling the Democrat a “liar.”

At the heart of the dispute: Clinton’s contention during Saturday night’s Democratic debate that Trump is becoming the Islamic State’s “best recruiter.”

“They are going to people, showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists,” Clinton said.

Although it’s possible that Trump’s call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the USA could be used by the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, independent fact-checkers have not found evidence of videos as described by Clinton.

“It’s nonsense. It’s just another Hillary lie,” Trump said on NBC’s Meet the Press. “She lies like crazy about everything.” Trump said he wouldn’t tone down his language, even if he found his words were being used in recruitment videos.

Sunday, Clinton communication director Jennifer Palmieri said her boss was not “referring to a specific video” and groups monitoring the Islamic State say Trump is a social media propaganda tool for jihadists. Palmieri spoke on ABC’s This Week.

In other campaign developments Sunday:

Trump spoke of allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered journalists and rivals killed. On This Week, Trump said it would be “despicable” for Putin to kill journalists, “but nobody’s proven that he’s killed anybody as far as I’m concerned.”

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign suspended two more staffers who may have been involved in downloading Clinton’s campaign data when a vendor’s firewall failed.