“Hillary Clinton is always the target”.
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“I think this is something that’s honestly blown hugely out of proportion”, Trump countered, proceeding to argue that Donald Trump had praised the family as “amazing people” and that his focus was ultimately on security issues, and dealing with illegal immigration and Syrian refugees.
Christie, however, said the couple have “a right to say whatever they want, whether they’re right or wrong”.
It has dominated the news cycle ever since Pakistani immigrant Khizr Khan galvanized the Democratic National Convention last Thursday with a tribute to his dead son in which he rebuked the Republican nominee for having “sacrificed nothing” for the country.
Al Baldasaro (seen with Donald Trump at a May campaign event) is spreading a conspiracy theory about Khizr Khan. Trump stoked outrage by implying Ghazala Khan did not speak while standing alongside her husband at last week’s Democratic convention because she is a Muslim woman. “He said he would like to hear from me”. And in an op-ed on Tuesday, a NY congressman became the first House Republican to announce that he would vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of SC, have criticized Trump and said the comments didn’t reflect the views of the Republican Party.
“He is unfit to serve our party and can not lead this country”, Hanna said. “He is unrepentant in all things”. He’s not seeking re-election. Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq war; her rival says he was against it.
The Democratic presidential nominee raised another $26 million in July for the Democratic National Committee and state parties.
He said that while Trump “hurt somebody’s feelings”, Clinton is unfit for the office because “she didn’t lift a finger and she said it didn’t matter that four Americans died”. She had nothing to say.
Trump also turned his rhetorical guns on the highest-ranking elected official in his own party, by tweeting out a positive message to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s GOP primary opponent.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a leading Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, has demanded that Trump’s apologise.
The dispute is the latest in a series of missteps by the freewheeling, unorthodox campaign of the NY businessman, who has never held elected political office but who beat 16 rivals to become the Republican presidential nominee for the November 8 election.
Trump spent the days after winning the Republican nomination criticizing a US district court judge’s Mexican heritage. Republican senators such as Arizona’s John McCain and New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte tried to do both by denouncing Trump’s disparaging remarks toward the Khan family but declining to move off of their endorsements.
Those families who have lost a son or daughter “serve as a powerful reminder of the true strength of America”, Obama said.
Trump’s string of comments has put many veteran Trump supporters in a tough spot: support your candidate or stand up for Gold Star families?
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Meyers explained that Trump made it even worse with his “trademark vanity and narcissism” when he implied that he had sacrificed as much as the Khans with his business success.
