The attack is in "", as the slur is a claim he's secretly Muslim. Which is not really a slur, except in politics where being anything but white, male, old, and christian is bad.
TPM's Election Central has been following and digging out the story.
A nasty email has been spread around saying he's secretly a Muslim and probably tied to radicalism. It is a bunch of hooey, full of fear for the bible and the doom of America. Utter rot.
Apparently this chain email has been discovered to be passed along the chain by a Iowa County Chair for the Clinton campaign.
There is no evidence this was an act by the campaign proper, but it is an embarrassment, and plays into the view that Clinton says and does whatever she needs to win. So far, it seems, the campaign is trying to stay on top of this and fired the chair and disavowed the email.
This is the campaigns response at present.
Since seeing your post...we investigated this and below is a response from Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle:
"There is no place in our campaign, or any campaign, for this kind of politics. A volunteer county coordinator made the mistake of forwarding an outrageous and offensive chain e-mail. This was wholly unauthorized and we were totally unaware of it. Let me be clear: No one should be engaging in this. We are asking this volunteer county coordinator to step down and are making it clear to every person involved in our campaign that this will not be tolerated."
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