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.
Advertisement
Khizr Khan, whose son was one of 14 muslims serving the US armed forced to die in the years following 9/11, addresses the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia July 28, 2016.
McCain declined to address Trump’s comments, other than to say that he stood by his record.
“Well I thank you for the question”, Pence began before waiting for the crowd to settle. “You tell me. But plenty of people have written that”.
“That’s what freedom looks like, and that’s what freedom sounds like”, he said.
Trump, who appeared on Hannity Monday night, told the Fox News host he was being “targeted” by the Khan family.
Meantime, Donald Trump’s son says that his father’s comments Capt. Khan, who was killed in Iraq, were “honestly blown out of proportion”.
That would mean supporting Hillary Clinton who I would never be able to support. Sen.
John Hutson, a retired rear admiral and former dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law, accused Trump of being unfit to serve. Khan’s son, Humayun, was killed by a auto bomb while serving in Baquba, Iraq, in 2004 and was posthumously awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Where is McCain when the Republican presidential nominee bashes Latinos, Muslims and women?
The Khans said they have also visited since the convention speech.
Rather than acknowledging the evident sorrow written all over her face and body language, Trump honed in on the fact that she didn’t speak at the Democratic National Convention. But before Humayun was killed, his father sent him McCain’s book, Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life. “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. On Monday, Arizona Senator John McCain, who spent time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, wrote, “I can not emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump’s statement. I wouldn’t have been in the war”. “He was a war hero because he was captured”.
The Khan’s called Trump’s actions “disappointing, void of empathy and of moral compass”.
Advertisement
Donald Trump will rebuild our military, and make sure our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guard have the resources they need, the training that they need.
