“Just a little while ago I met with the Gold Star families, six families”, Trump said at a rally in Jacksonville.
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Pence told the crowd, “It’s OK”.
Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe lit into Donald Trump on Monday for his continued attacks on Khizr and Ghazala Khan of Charlottesville, parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq and outspoken critics of the Republican presidential candidate.
“You have a son in the military, how do you tolerate his disrespect?”
Many Republican leaders, including John McCain, have spoken out about Trump’s remarks, saying the Republican presidential nominee defamed Khan and doesn’t represent the larger GOP Party. “If your Senator does a statement please send a copy to me so I can catalog them”, Rob Wasinger wrote in an email to staffers for Republicans on Capitol Hill. “And it looked like she had nothing to say”.
When asked on CBS if his father is capable of apologizing, Eric Trump called his dad “a fighter” who was “attacked viciously”.
The Indiana governor went on to say “Let me just say first I want to honor your son’s service to the country and your family’s service to the country, I truly do”.
She said the question remains: “How can you stand by someone so disrespectful?”
“He never put his rank above his care for his soldiers and his comrades”, said former Sgt. Laci Walker, who served with Khan.
“At the end of the day, despite the fact I disagree with Donald on a number of things, including his statement on this, I disagree with her on everything”, Rubio said.
“I imagine the reason Donald Trump is doing that is to try to raise anxiety in the minds of voters and to hopefully, from his point of view, turn that anxiety into support for him”, Wagner said. We have radical Islamic terrorists coming in that have to be stopped. Her son Corey was killed in combat operations in Iraq.
“Am I supposed to not have the right to at least say something back?”
In fact, Khan said, he keeps a stack of pocket-sized Constitutions at his home to give to guests and to strike up conversation.
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Saldivar told NBCDFW.com that she was speaking out because her sister, Lupe Torres, couldn’t talk about her dead son without breaking down.
