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Obama campaign blasts Mitt Romney for initial silence after supporter says president ‘should be tried for treason’

By Callum Borchers

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 07, 2012

The Obama campaign slammed Mitt Romney Monday for not confronting a supporter who said during a town hall event in Cleveland that the president “should be tried for treason.” Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, ignored the treason comment and answered her question. The Obama campaign characterized the woman’s remark as an out-of-bounds attack and said Romney, though he is Obama’s political adversary, should have stood up for the president.

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