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The sister of former White House aide Vincent Foster said presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump was "cruel" to bring up her brother's death on the campaign trail.Sheila Foster Anthony, the sister of a onetime top aide to President Bill Clinton, wrote an opinion piece published Thursday in The Washington Post titled, "Vince Foster was my brother.

Donald Trump should be ashamed." In it, she said it is "beyond contempt that a politician would use a family tragedy to further his candidacy."

Trump raised doubts this week about the official version of events surrounding Foster's suicide in 1993. He called the circumstances around the death "very fishy."“He had intimate knowledge of what was going on,” Trump said of Foster’s relationship with the Clintons. “He knew everything that was going on and then all of a sudden he committed suicide.” 

Foster was a longtime friend of the Clintons and served as deputy White House counsel in the first few months of Clinton's presidency. He was found dead from a gunshot wound in July 1993.

Three official investigations agreed that his death was a suicide as that he suffered from depression. But right-wing conspiracy theories maintain that the Clintons were somehow involved.Anthony said insinuating that Hillary Clinton played a role in her brother's death was "wrong" and "irresponsible."

"This is scurrilous enough coming from right-wing political operatives who have peddled conspiracy theories about Vince’s death for more than two decades," Anthony wrote.  "How could this be coming from the presumptive Republican nominee for president?"

Anthony wrote that she and her brother were very close and he admitted to her he was battling depression.

 "I did not see a suicide coming, yet when I was told that Vince was dead, I knew that he had killed himself. Never for a minute have I doubted that was what happened," she wrote.

She said the suggestions that her brother was murdered have caused her family "untold pain." But she has never spoken publicly about the incident to maintain their privacy, she wrote.

"For Trump to raise these theories again for political advantage is wrong," she wrote. "I cannot let such craven behavior pass without a response."

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