But the national co-chair of his campaign, Sam Clovis, said Trump made a deliberate move to push back against the Khans. Wasinger refused to comment when contacted by telephone.
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The appeal didn’t generate much back-up for Trump. “When a suicide bomber accelerated his vehicle toward a facility with hundreds of American soldiers, Captain Khan ordered his subordinates away from the danger”, he said. Trump responded by taking note of Ghazala Khan’s silence, suggesting that she wasn’t allowed to speak.
In what has become an nearly predictable cycle-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump makes a ridiculous, insulting comment, he is condemned by Democrats, some Republicans, the press and social media.
Republican candidate Donald Trump implied Khizr Khan’s wife may have been stopped from speaking about death of her son in Iraq.
Trump briefly fights the urge to talk about Khan at a rally in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
She said she emailed the Khans after the Democratic National Convention speech, telling them how courageous they were. Signed by 23 “Gold Star” families who’ve also lost loved ones in battle, the letter accuses Trump of cheapening the ultimate sacrifice payed by their loved one.
The parade of high military officials, led by John Allen, the former Commander of Military Forces in Afghanistan; the repeated chants of U.S., accompanied by delegates waving United States of America posters, and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s speech attacking Donald Trump were part of a well-orchestrated effort to place Hillary Clinton firmly in the American mainstream and assert that Donald Trump’s values and temperament place the Reality Star outside that mainstream and a very risky bet.
“No one has given more for our freedom and our security than our Gold Star families”, said Obama.
“There is a responsibility for all of us when they cross the line and for me especially to cross the line with the military, to speak out against that and to reaffirm that we honor and appreciate their service and nothing that is said or done in politics changes that”.
“You have sacrificed nothing”, he said last week, as his wife stood by his side.
McAuliffe said he’s “baffled” that Trump continues to target the couple.
President Barack Obama and Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wave together during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 27, 2016.
Khan pointed out that Trump has “sacrificed nothing and no one”.
Trump’s off-the-cuff insults and controversial proposals such as the Muslim ban and a plan to keep illegal immigrants out by building a wall along the Mexican border, have made many in the party establishment reluctant backers of his White House bid.
This is the first time Pence has spoken about the topic, having previously deferred questions to Trump’s campaign. Capt. Khan is a hero. “You have sacrificed nothing”. John McCain said in a statement that the fact Trump won his party’s nomination doesn’t give him “unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us”.
On Dec. 7, and in the midst of the Republican primary, Trump released a statement in response to the San Bernardino terrorist attack, calling for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims” entering the U.S. Trump has responded by insisting he had made sacrifices and questioning why Ghazala Khan did not speak on stage, which she later said was because she was too bereaved. Leading Republicans including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued statements in support of the family.
Trump drew similar opprobrium a year ago when he said McCain, who as a naval aviator was shot down and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War, was not a hero since he had been captured.
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Pence’s late Sunday statement came after an afternoon of debate among his aides as to whether he should find a way to subtly distance himself from Trump’s comments, according to a person familiar with the internal campaign conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them publicly.
