“In recent days, Donald Trump disparaged a fallen soldier’s parents”.
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Minnesota legislators and a Gold Star mother joined in the chorus of rebukes against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Tuesday for his feud with a Muslim-American couple who lost their son in the Iraq war.
“Captain Khan’s parents, and every Gold Star family, deserve our utmost respect and admiration”.
There are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can fix once crossed.
Obama said that Gold Star families “have made a sacrifice that most of us can not begin to imagine”.
‘There are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can fix once crossed, ‘ he said.
In their letter, other Gold Star family members rejected Trump’s definition of sacrifice.
Less than a week before, Trump was given a standing ovation by the group during a conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Khans lost their son, Humayun, during a vehicle bomb attack in Iraq in 2004.
‘Have you ever been to Arlington Cemetery?
You’re on the go! He likened Trump’s comments to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s remarks about computer equipment kept at her home.
Khan and his wife Ghazala Khan have been in the spotlight since supporting Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last Friday. She said she’s tried to understand Trump’s comments, but finds a lack of compassion.
Barnes said he will be calling on Republican candidates to step up and to speak out against Trump. He speculated Khizr Khan didn’t write his speech and Khan’s mother stood silently on the stage during the speech because “maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say”. As for Trump’s response, Neiberger-Miller said she found it “very disturbing and distasteful”.
She refuted that claim again this morning during an appearance on Morning Joe.
“Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution?”.
Trump broke a political and societal taboo over the weekend when he criticized Khizr and Ghazala Khan. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs.
Lieutenant Ghanbari said the real lesson we can learn from the interaction between Donald Trump and The Khan family actually comes from how the members of the military treat each other.
The heat continued as the VFW issued complaints about Trump. Sen.
“It was so upsetting and that’s the first time in a long time that I’d cried”, Meredith said. Trump’s candidacy is about more than the outcome of the 2016 election.
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“Just saying that he is a hero after you stated that his family is not welcome in America, or his family should be put on a registry does not make up for that fact” said Lesch.
