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T-Shirt Depicting Clinton Beheading Trump Hits Online Stores

© REUTERS / Scott Audette (L), Javier Galeano (R)A combination photo shows Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) and Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (R)
A combination photo shows Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) and Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (R) - Sputnik International
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If you think that the ongoing presidential run in the US has crossed all boundaries of decency, think again. Check out the T-shirt available for purchase online, with an image of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton decapitating her GOP rival Donald Trump.

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The T-shirt, with its clumsy but bloodthirsty image, is the brainchild of devoted Hillary Clinton supporters, and is being distributed through the Wonkette website. The image is a take on a Biblical myth regarding one Judith, who beheads Holofernes, and is generally accepted as a metaphor regarding resistance to tyranny.

According to one version of the story, Judith is a Jewish patriot who saves her city from besieging Assyrians. In this variant she seduces the hostile Assyrian general Holofernes and then beheads him. Other interpretations have similar takes with small differences, including insistence on Judith’s chastity, the alcoholism of Holofernes, and the meddling of several colorful third-party characters.

​In the photoshopped 2016 version, a robed Clinton plays the role of Judith, holding the severed head of Trump, his hair still intact. It also features former US President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton’s husband, looking happily from behind his wife’s shoulder.

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The online store selling the Clinton-beheads-Trump t-shirts offers a variety of other items with the same graphic, as well as other goods such as popular “Truck Fump” notebooks, mugs and pillows.

The candidates are known for harshly criticizing each other, and disagreeing on nearly every issue throughout their presidential campaign. In the most recent instance, they showed completely different attitudes toward Orlando carnage.

According to recent polls, Clinton has surpassed Trump by seven percent in voting popularity.

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