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John McCain has joined other members of the Republican Party in condemning Donald Trump over comments the Republican presidential candidate made regarding Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of a Muslim-American soldier killed in combat. He then ignited another furor by saying Khan’s wife, Ghazala, who had accompanied her husband onstage at the convention perhaps “wasn’t allowed to have anything to say”. She also used the episode to contrast her own religious faith with that of Trump, who has spoken of religion on the campaign trail infrequently.
In response to the speech, Trump said he had also made sacrifices in his life.
NEWS BRIEF Republican lawmakers are hammering Donald Trump for his remarks about the parents of a Muslim soldier who died while deployed, but many are refraining from withdrawing their support of the Republican nominee. “And you are certainly right; your son was the best of America; and the memory of his sacrifice will make us a better nation”, he added.
Last week, Mr Pence said Russian Federation would face “serious consequences” for meddling in U.S. elections at roughly the same time as Mr Trump appeared to encourage it, telling reporters he would welcome Russian Federation unearthing emails that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton deleted from the private servers she used during her time as USA secretary of state.
Khizr Khan challenged Donald Trump last week at the DNC asking, “Have you ever even read the Constitution?”
Khizr Khan responded to the Trump interview saying: “Running for president is not an entitlement to disrespect Gold Star families and [a] Gold Star mother not realizing her pain. She was extremely quiet and looked like she had nothing to say”.
Ghazala Khan herself spoke out on Sunday in an opinion piece published in The Washington Post, saying talking about her son’s death 12 years ago is still hard for her. “Every day, whenever I pray, I have to pray for him, and I cry”, she wrote. “We are as concerned as Donald Trump is about the safety of this country”.
The Republican presidential nominee said Khan didn’t “have the right” to suggest Trump didn’t understand the US Constitution.
Johnson’s campaign spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment or whether he’d be joining Trump in Green Bay.
After Trump’s initial comments, the mogul inflamed the matter further in a series of tweets Sunday. “But the real blame here has to be on Hillary Clinton’s and John McCain’s reckless foreign policy” for bringing the United States into war.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who opposed Trump in the Republican primaries, said in a statement that “this is going to a place where we’ve never gone before, to push back against the families of the fallen”. “That is moral compass and second is empathy”, Khan said.
