As a country, honoring his bravery and service also means supporting Captain’s Khan’s family, including his parents, Khizr and Ghazala.
That’s why it is all the more appalling that Donald Trump, rather than honoring a Gold Star family’s sacrifice, has resorted to repeatedly attacking and insulting the Khan family.
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Jeb Bush, Mr Trump’s former rival for the Republican nomination, said Mr Trump’s remark about Mrs Khan was, “so incredibly disrespectful of a family that endured the ultimate sacrifice for our country”.
Khizr Khan delivered an emotional address at last week’s Democratic convention, with his wife standing by his side.
Trump responded with a statement that summarized the points he makes in his stump speeches: “Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East … released criminal aliens into our country who killed one innocent American after another … produced the worst recovery since the Great Depression (and) shipped millions of our best jobs overseas”.
Mr Trump responded by implying Ghazala Khan’s religion preventing her from speaking at the convention, though she later said talking publicly about her late son was still too hard.
Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric against Muslim Americans like the Khan family shows his true colors.
Trump and the family of the slain soldier have been locked in an increasingly bitter dispute over Muslims in America and the nature of patriotic sacrifice. And the alternative is that the entire party, the Republican Party, effectively endorses and validates the positions that are being articulated by Mr. Trump. Trump stoked outrage by implying that his mother, Ghazala Khan, did not speak while standing alongside her husband at last week’s Democratic National Convention due to their. Other GOP members of Congress have refused to endorse Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency, but Hanna is the first congressional Republican to publicly declare he will vote for Clinton in November.
Humayun Khan was killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber on June 8, 2004. And with Trump’s most recent attack on the Khan family, it is shameful that he would seek to further divide our country, rather than unite us behind the very values of our country for which Captain Khan gave his life.
US President Barack Obama hugs Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton saying he will do all in his power to ensure she is elected.
Trump’s unwillingness to let the matter subside sparked outrage Monday from a chorus of Republicans.
Those remarks drew rebukes from at least five Republican senators on Monday, including John McCain of Arizona. Rep. Mike Coffman, a vulnerable Republican in a competitive Colorado district, said he was “deeply offended when Donald Trump fails to honor the sacrifices of all of our fearless soldiers who were lost in that war”. Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt said the Khans “deserve to be heard and respected”. “This is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he’s making”, Obama said of the party’s top brass including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain.
“My advice to Donald Trump has been and will continue to be to focus on jobs and national security and stop responding to every criticism whether it’s from a grieving family or Hillary Clinton”, Sen. Blunt said in a statement.
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However, none of the Republican politicians pulled back their support of Mr Trump’s White House campaign. And had they won, I would have been disappointed, but I would have said to all Americans they are – this is our President, and I know they’re going to abide by certain norms and rules and common sense, will observe basic decency, will have enough knowledge about economic policy and foreign policy and our constitutional traditions and rule of law that our government will work, and then we’ll compete four years from now to try to win an election.
