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Trump’s ‘you’d be in jail’ debate jab at Clinton condemned

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the second presidential debate with  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the second presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the second presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump says he’ll jail opponent Hillary Clinton if he wins the presidency.

The Republican presidential nominee made the threat – an unprecedented break with U.S. political decorum – in the middle of the second presidential debate, held Sunday in St. Louis.

It came as the Democratic nominee said it is “awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.”

Trump blasted back, “Because you’d be in jail.”

That drew applause in a town hall-style debate that was supposed to be free of audience participation.