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Jennifer Palmieri (R) is a key aide to Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump has called on White

House rival Hillary Clinton to fire an
aide involved in leaked emails in which
conservative Catholics were
disparaged.

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The comments were made in an alleged

April 2011 exchange between Clinton
communications director Jennifer Palmieri
and a think tank fellow.
Her then-colleague appears to mock media
mogul Rupert Murdoch for bringing up his
children as Catholics.

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Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said

the comments were "staggering".
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The exchange was revealed this week among thousands of emails
disclosed by WikiLeaks.
The messages detail a conversation between Ms Palmieri and John
Halpin, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal
think tank with White House links.
Mr Halpin, who is himself Catholic, wrote: "Friggin' (Rupert) Murdoch
baptised his kids in Jordan where John the Baptist baptised Jesus."
He adds that "the most powerful elements of the conservative
movement are all Catholic".

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John Podesta is one of Hillary Clinton's top aides and her campaign chairman

Mr Halpin also described their positions as "an amazing

bastardisation of the faith".

"They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely
backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian
democracy," he added.
Ms Palmieri, who was at the think tank at the time, responded that
Catholicism "is the most socially acceptable politically conservative
religion".
"Their rich friends wouldn't understand if they became evangelicals,"
she said.
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta - whose emails were
hacked - was included in the email chain, but did not respond.
He has said the FBI is investigating whether Russia was behind the
cyber-breach of his system.
Campaigning on Wednesday in the battleground state of Florida, Mr
Trump said Mrs Clinton's team had been "viciously attacking
Catholics and evangelicals".
The Republican nominee added: "Anybody of religion, I really think
you have to vote for Donald Trump."

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