Let’s be clear about this: The presidential campaign of Donald Trump is a test of character for our Republican leaders.
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Meredith said she hadn’t wept over her son’s death for a long time, but the Republican presidential nominee “ripped the wounds right open again”.
“You don’t attack one Gold Star family, because if you do, you’re attacking a lot of us”, Meredith, 62, of Mountain View, Calif., said Monday. 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.
Mason’s message was for Hill offices to push out the campaign’s messages via press releases and social media to counter Khan’s continued critique of Trump, and encouraged offices to “forward to me ASAP”.
The Pence statement said Trump’s plans to bar immigrants from countries “compromised by terrorism”, rebuilding the us military and defeating Islamic State will prevent other American families from going through the same thing as the Khans. “There are some families that support Donald Trump”, Meredith said.
Trump refused to back down Monday, saying that he has been “viciously attacked” by the Khans.
While Obama did not cite Trump by name Monday, there was no mistaking the target of his remarks as he spoke about the “sacrifice” Gold Star families have made. On Monday, they posted a letter to Trump on the website VoteVets.org. Trump is an insult to religious, cultural and personal liberty. “Nobody should say anything other than ‘Thank you for your service'”.
“No one has given more for our freedom and our security than our Gold Star families”, Obama said at the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta.
The governor says that the unfathomable pain of losing their son gives the Khans the right to say whatever they want. Her brother, Marine 1st Lt. Travis Manion, was killed in Iraq in 2007. “She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say”.
Brian Duffy, the head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the US, said Trump’s criticism of the Khans was uncalled for and that the group would not tolerate attacks on families who have lost loved ones who were serving in the USA armed services.
Ghazala Khan, mother of the slain soldier Capt. Humayun Khan, also had a message for Trump, who has proposed banning Muslim immigration from countries with a record of terrorism: “I think he doesn’t know Islam”.
“They have beyond sweat equity in this country”, she said.
Of course, it is unlikely that we will see any mass exodus of support from either candidate at this point in the race, barring one of them committing a murder in cold blood. “If I were president, his son wouldn’t have died, because I wouldn’t have been in the war, if I was president back then”. When does the bar get so low that he says, “You know what?” I’ve worked very hard. “We hope that this is an opportunity to bring light to an issue that has been dominated by heat”.
Khizr Khan, whose son died in a 2004 suicide bombing in Iraq, has gone head to head with the insult-dishing White House candidate in a confrontation that has dominated the USA news cycle for days. Army Spc. Christopher Neiberger was killed in Iraq in 2007.
The episode has dominated USA headlines since last Thursday, when Pakistani immigrant Khizr Khan galvanized the Democratic National Convention with a tribute to his dead son in which he rebuked the Republican nominee for having “sacrificed nothing” for the country.
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“It’s just who he is”, said Stuart Jolly, a former campaign staffer and current national political director for the pro-Trump Great America PAC. She also urged Clinton to make an apology to Pat Smith, a speaker at the GOP convention, whose son was killed in Benghazi. “I actually saw her standing there as a kind of strength”.
