Washington: Donald Trump and Jeb Bush launched into a bitter and at times deeply personal volley of insults Saturday at the Republican presidential debate, a forum where the ideological stakes were raised by the death only hours earlier of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. As the audience boos grew louder, Mr Trump persisted in an attack on Bush and his brother, former president George W. Bush, for what he characterised as their failure to grasp the problems in the Middle East. "The war in Iraq was a big fat mistake," Mr Trump said, then recounting what he cast as Jeb Bush's waffling on the subject when he entered the race last summer. "It took him five days before...
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