Khan asks McCain to withdraw Trump support

It lists a series of recent Trump missteps – from rhetorically attacking the Muslim family of a U.S. Army captain killed while serving in Iraq to “Deliberately and repeatedly lying about scores of issues, large and small” – as evidence.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Khizr Khan is calling on Sen. “I’m the one that’s funding, I’m the one that’s raising the money and other people are getting to use the money that I raised”, Trump said.

Keefe said in an NBC News report that he met Khan during the DNC and was moved by his speech. “I implore Sen. McCain … I continue to implore all of the good Republicans who either support or are going to vote for their party’s candidate, this will be a historic moment in the Republican Party”. “If you publicly rebuked him, you will look back and you will stand tall in front of the nation and you will say you were not for this, we were for (a) better America”. Khan told CNN’s Jim Acosta on “State of the Union” that he hopes Trump’s family will.

A spokesman for the RNC did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Khan came into the public eye two weeks ago after his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where he assailed Trump for what he calls the nominee’s anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric. “Who wrote that? Did Hillary’s script writers write it?”

Still, the conversation was frank, with Priebus increasingly frustrated with the direction of Trump’s campaign, according to multiple Republican sources. John McCain and House Speaker Paul Ryan – however, they did not retract their endorsements.

Dozens of frightened Republicans are signing onto a letter urging the Republican National Committee to cut off financial help to presidential candidate Donald Trump before his controversial and unconventional campaign sinks vulnerable Senate and House incumbents. McCain went on to thank the Khans for immigrating to the USA when Humayun was 2, and to say that their son “was the best of America”.

The younger Khan, who died in combat in 2004, said to Trump at the DNC: “You have sacrificed nothing”.

Trump, in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” Thursday night, dismissed the letter and suggested that the Republican Party needs him financially more than he needs it. “That was the time to speak. If they want to do that they can save me a lot of time and a lot of energy”.

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Trump has blamed the USA news media for taking many of his comments out of context, and on Thursday night, some of his supporters heckled and cursed reporters who covered the rally in a large arena in Kissimmee. But Khan disagrees, saying that his wife and he have paid tribute to Humayun by speaking out for the values their son fought for. “This is not the ideal place, this is the best place”, Khan said.