“Your recent comments regarding the Khan family were repugnant and personally offensive to us”, wrote the group of 11 “Gold Star” families, who are those who have lost a family member in war. “Am I not allowed to respond?” he asked. “Hillary voted for the Iraq war, not me!”
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Khizr Khan said that running for president does not entitle Trump “to disrespect” the relatives of soldiers killed in combat.
Hillary Clinton says she has “work to do” to earn voters’ trust and move past the “caricature” many people have of her.
Khizr Khan, whose son was one of 14 muslims serving the USA armed forced to die in the years following 9/11, addresses the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia July 28, 2016.
“Donald Trump, you are asking Americans to trust you with our future”. But neither statement mentioned Trump by name or repudiated him. In Ashland, Clinton said that she “respect[s] and honor[s] the service of Captain Khan and the extraordinary dignity and bravery of his parents”.
“Mr Khan paid the ultimate sacrifice in his family, didn’t he?”
Both House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have issued statements praising the couple’s son.
“This shouldn’t be hard”, Reid said.
“They’re a Gold Star family”.
President Barack Obama says the US can’t “turn inward” and embrace protectionism because of economic anxieties that have been drawn out by the presidential election.
“The issue really is radical Islamic jihad and the risk to the American homeland”, he said on CBS, defending Trump’s proposal to suspend immigration from some geographic regions.
“I don’t know where the boundaries are”.
“Let me ask you, have you even read the U.S. Constitution?” I raised, and I have raised, millions of dollars for the vets. Buffett is the latest business leader to back Clinton over Republican Donald Trump.
CHRIS WALLACE: One of the most dramatic moments in the Republican convention was when pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, one of the people who died in Benghazi, stood up before the convention and blamed you for her son’s death. “Maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say”.
The magnate also suggested that perhaps his wife didn’t speak together with her husband because she probably “wasn’t allowed to”, an apparent reference to her condition as a Muslim woman. Trump told ABC News that Khan’s wife who stood beside her husband at the Democratic National Convention was silent.
“When Donald Trump is talking about Islam, he is ignorant”, she wrote. “I’ve made a lot of sacrifices”, Trump said. Donald Trump said he has made a lot of sacrifices.
“I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures”, he said.
In a statement released Saturday evening, Trump said that while Capt. Humayun Khan was a “hero”, his father had “no right” to question Trump’s understanding of the US Constitution.
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Trump has made plans to visit some of the same areas Clinton is campaigning in during her three-day bus tour through OH and Pennsylvania, scheduling Monday stops in Columbus and Cleveland. Trump has spoken out against the speech.
