Donald Trump rejected criticism from the father of a soldier killed in Iraq who said the Republican presidential nominee had “sacrificed nothing and no one” and questioned whether the mother was allowed to speak during the couple’s appearance at the Democratic convention.
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Trump again defended his criticism of the Khans on Sunday, complaining on Twitter that Khizr Khan in his speech Thursday at the Democratic National Convention “viciously attacked” Trump. In his first reaction, during an ABC News interview, Trump questioned why Khan’s wife did not speak alongside him at the Democratic convention, implying that she had been forbidden from doing so.
House speaker Paul Ryan issued a statement Sunday afternoon.
Khan said Sunday Trump’s “policy, his practices, do not reflect that he has any understanding of the basic, fundamental constitutional principles of this country”.
Clinton tells parishioners in a Cleveland church that Trump’s character is questionable because he repaid a family that made the “ultimate sacrifice” with “nothing but insults” and “degrading comments about Muslims”.
“Captain Khan gave his life to defend our country in the global war on terror”, the in governor, who is Trump’s running mate, wrote.
The Wisconsin Republican went on to praise Khan’s military experience, saying his religious beliefs shouldn’t hinder America’s view on his service. In his addres, Khzir Khan suggested Trump was unfamiliar with the meaning of the U.S. Constitution and offered to let the NY real-estate magnate borrow Khan’s own pocket version. Trump responded by saying he’d made “a lot of sacrifices” and implied that Ghazala Khan’s Muslim faith prevented her from speaking.
Khan criticized Trump in his Democratic National Convention speech, and Trump later came back with hits to both Khan and Khan’s wife, Ghazala. On Saturday, Trump called their son, U.S. Capt. Humayun Khan, a hero but said the issue was about terrorism and the ability of leaders of the current administration to eradicate it.
“It was inappropriate on both sides”, said Mark Farner of Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, as he stood a few feet from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. The candidate also tried to change the subject to the war itself: “Hillary voted for the Iraq war, not me!”
OH governor John Kasich, who fought Trump in the presidential primaries, also chimed in, and also omitted the name of his own party’s standard-bearer. But unlike her rival Donald Trump, “I have a long record of public service I can point to that’s actually produced results for people”.
It is too soon to say how severe the damage to Trump’s campaign might be, but the clash has already entangled Trump in an argument with a pair of sympathetic accusers and put him on the defensive over his proposal to ban Muslims. “Maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say”.
“If you look at his wife, she was standing there”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is suggesting the US accept Russia’s annexation of Crimea if it would lead to better relations with Moscow and stronger cooperation in fighting Islamic State militants. “I don’t know where the bottom is”.
“Senator McConnell and Speaker Ryan approvingly spoke at Donald Trump’s convention, endorsed Donald Trump for president and believe he is mentally fit to sit in the Oval Office”.
In an op-ed for the Washington Post and in an emotional interview with MSNBC on Saturday, Ghazala Khan made it quite clear that she was not being silenced. He also suggested the Khans had been doing the Clinton campaign’s bidding and suggested the soldier’s mother had stood silently alongside her husband during his speech because “maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say”.
On ABC, Mr Trump appeared open to accepting the Russian occupation of the Crimean peninsula.
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“By suspending immigration from countries that have been compromised by terrorism, rebuilding our military, defeating ISIS at its source and projecting strength on the global stage, we will reduce the likelihood that other American families will face the enduring heartbreak of the Khan family”.
