Khizr Khan, father of fallen Muslim US soldier Humayun Khan, holds up the US Constitution as he delivers remarks on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 28, 2016.
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Pence told the crowd, “It’s OK”.
“Ours is a sacrifice you will never know”, the families say in the letter, which was posted Monday on the VoteVets.org website. “That is not the value of this country”. He said the focus should be on “radical Islamic terrorism”, not the parents. And Sullivan has said he supports the Republican nominee.
“I’m exercising my rights for freedom of speech”, Khan said. “And his disrespect for Mr. Khan and his family is just an example of that”. The presidential nominee also attacked Ghazala Khan, the captain’s mother, for not speaking during the convention herself. “She’s a very deceitful person, she lies, she cheats, no I don’t think that’s too far at all”, Trump said. But she said she hasn’t had a chance to talk to him since and get his reaction.
“Time and time again Trump has disrespected our nation’s armed forces and veterans – and his disrespect for Mr. Khan and his family is just an example of that”, Catherine Byrne, the mother of Raymond Harmon, who is now deployed in the Persian Gulf, said to Pence.
Trump has responded by attacking the Khans repeatedly.
Donald Trump may have an enemy in common and this time he may not be in a company he would be glad to be associated. But Karen Vaughn, whose son Aaron, a Navy SEAL, died in Afghanistan, said she left it feeling that Trump understood where the families were coming from.
Right now it’s not clear if any prominent Florida Republicans plan to join him when Trump does a campaign swing through Florida on Wednesday.
Enter Eric Trump, who on “CBS This Morning” Tuesday defended his father in the latest controversy involving the Khan family. “I believe that each of us are called every day to show our deepest respect and gratitude to all of those who protect our freedom and their families”.
“When Donald Trump is talking about Islam, he is ignorant”, she wrote.
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Byrne said Pence or a more volatile politician like Trump, “could have gone the other way”.
