Now, Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, has issued a statement that appears created to put some space between the two men atop the GOP ticket.
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“While our party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us”, McCain said.
Gold Star families represent such a small fraction of the population, “it’s super important that the people making the decision to send men and women off to war understand what that means”, said Borek, who hasn’t decided which candidate she will vote for.
Trump stoked outrage by implying that Ghazala Khan didn’t speak while standing alongside her husband at last week’s Democratic convention because they are Muslim.
Trump also tweeted that the focus should be on “radical Islamic terrorism”, not the Khans. I will gladly lend you my copy”, he said, adding “If it was up to Donald Trump, [Humayun] never would have been in America.
“Mr. Trump has made a firestorm happen that didn’t need to happen and that insults everybody who served”, said Zappala, of Philadelphia.
He complained anew that he had been “viciously attacked” by the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in Iraq. He told the soldiers to drop to the ground then went to stop the vehicle, which exploded, killing him and two Iraqi soldiers.
Khan’s son, Captain Humayun Khan was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star with a purple heart for his fearless move which saved the lives of the men he supervised. “Just as Donald Trump must apologize for his un-American remarks, Republican Party leaders must finally repudiate their candidate’s divisive rhetoric”.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said: “This is so incredibly disrespectful of a family that endured the ultimate sacrifice for our country”.
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., reacted to McCain’s statement with: “Well said”. “We have to do everything we can for those families and honor them and be humbled by them”.
Susana Martinez on Monday called Army Capt. Humayun Khan an American hero.
Trump explained that with the “state of the world today, we have to know everything about those looking to enter our country, and given the state of chaos in some of these countries, that is impossible”.
Brian Duffy, head of the 1.7-million-member VFW, said in a statement Monday that election year or not, the nation’s oldest and largest war veterans group will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising their free speech. “If I become president, I will make America safe again”.
Paul Rieckoff, founder and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said that the comparison of Trump’s sacrifices with what Khan went through was “insulting, foolish and ignorant”.
“I don’t believe in accidents in campaigns, and I think that the Blunt team wouldn’t have issued a press release if they didn’t think they needed to or had to”, Gonzales said. That proves the point: “He has not read the Constitution of this country”.
Ghazala Khan, in a Washington Post op-ed, defended Islam, saying that if Trump “studied the real Islam and Koran, all the ideas he gets from terrorists would change, because terrorism is a different religion”.
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In an interview with CNN, Sen. “I talked to lot of Iranian Muslims and they all said the same thing: he is a true representative of a Muslim”. During his speech, Khan demands from Trump to know why Muslims are looked at suspiciously when so many Muslims like his son have fought for the nation and even gave their lives.
