In a heartfelt but politically charged speech, Mr. Khan attacked Donald Trump, asking if he’d ever read the Constitution, and saying that Trump would never have allowed his son to enter the United States. So when Khizr Khan says Donald Trump is “incapable of empathy” in follow up interviews, I’m inclined to believe him.
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Khizr Khan, father of fallen US Army Capt. Humayun S.M. Khan holds up a copy of the Constitution of the United States as his wife listens during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Thursday, July 28, 2016.
He added that his wife didn’t speak at the convention because “she was just totally emotionally spent”, and that Trump’s remarks about her are “typical of a person without a soul”. “That’s just not how I was raised”. “Am I not allowed to respond?” he asked.
He said Trump’s “policy, his practices, do not reflect that he has any understanding of the basic, fundamental constitutional principles of this country”. Joined by running mate Sen. Tim Kaine and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, the Democratic nominee was in the midst of a post-convention bus-tour through OH and Pennsylvania.
Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim US soldier slain in Iraq in 2004, said Sunday that Donald Trump has a “black soul”, indicating he lacks empathy and compassion.
Earlier in the day, Clinton said in a statement that she was “very moved to see Ghazala Khan stand bravely and with dignity in support of her son on Thursday night”. “And I told her that you have to assemble yourself and stand for the beauty of this tribute that is being paid”. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.
In an op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday, Ghazala Khan responded directly to Trump’s questions.
Mrs Khan said that although she did not speak, “all the world, all America, felt my pain”.
She said Americans are living in a time of “really hot politics”.
“If he studied the real Islam and Koran, all the ideas he gets from terrorists would change, because terrorism is a different religion”, Ghazala Khan wrote. Yesterday her husband told The New York Times Trump “is devoid of feeling the pain of a mother who has sacrificed her son”. “You have sacrificed nothing, and no one!” he cried, voice rising with barely suppressed outrage. I work very, very hard. “I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs – tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures”.
Two days later, on Saturday, 30 July, in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, Trump attacked the Khan family.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who ran against Trump in the Republican primary, tweeted, “There’s only one way to talk about Gold Star parents: with honor and respect”. “Capt. Khan is a hero”. The comments came after the Republican presidential candidate insulted the family in a series of television interviews with U.S. news networks.
Ms. Clinton in a statement said Captain Khan and his family “represent the best of America, and we salute them”.
When Humayun was sent to Iraq, my husband and I anxious about his safety.
He asked Trump to “go look at the graves of fearless patriots who died defending the United States of America”.
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Clinton used her first television interview since officially clinching the Democratic nomination to cast Trump as dangerously pro-Russia and an unknown quantity for USA voters.
