Mr. Khan, whose son Captain Humanyun Khan was killed in a suicide attack in Iraq in 2004, asked Muslims in the U.S. not to vote for Trump who offended the community by suggesting that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States. Trump, who thinks Khizr Khan “has no right” to question his respect for the Constitution, seems genuinely baffled by the idea that freedom of speech is a two-way street. He offered his copy of the American constitution to Trump to read it. Atwater, citing the investigation into Clinton’s emails, said that Trump was the “better candidate”.
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Trump’s stunning slap at two of the nation’s most prominent Republicans dramatically escalated GOP turmoil barely a week after a convention meant to promote party unity.
A leading Republican Senator John McCain sharply criticized Trump’s remarks against the family.
“And he said: ‘You know Mr. Trump, this is for your campaign.’ And I said: ‘You don’t have to do that.’ He goes: ‘I do, ‘” Trump said.
“Would I have ever said anything about his mother standing up there silent, not saying anything?” she continued.
Now, Khan has said that he is done doing interviews and publicly responding to Trump – for now.
“If you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?” the president said.
Bondi told reporters Tuesday that she wouldn’t talk politics at her post-Cabinet gaggle and said security reasons kept her from saying whether she would appear at one of Trump’s events Wednesday in Daytona Beach and Jacksonville. I work very, very hard.
Trump also claimed Ryan had asked for his support, something Ryan’s aides denied.
“Khan is an American hero”, Pence told a crowd at a Reno hotel-casino later that evening, emphasizing that Trump shares his view.
Trump also suggested Khan’s wife was not allowed to speak because the couple is Muslim, and that it was the candidate’s position on keeping terrorists out of the country that bothered Khan. “Some really wonderful Gold Star families”. In addition, Duval County is home to two of the five largest Navy bases in the United States, with more than another 100,000 soldiers and other personnel connected to those bases. Over here, I have Hillary Clinton a career politician that has never created a job in her life.
While Trump has beefed with both men in the past, this most recent bout of childish antics likely stems from both Ryan and McCain’s support of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, parents of dead U.S. Army captain Humayun Khan, who humiliated Trump at the Democratic National Convention by calling him out as the poser he is.
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That comment and others Trump made about the family prompted criticism from fellow Republicans and demands for an apology from the families of fallen soldiers.
