Hillary Clinton defended the bereaved parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain, saying Donald Trump has a “total misunderstanding” of American values and has inflamed divisions in American society.
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When Khizr Khan spoke at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night, few could have predicted his emotional rebuke of Donald Trump would still be driving headlines days later. “That’s just not how I was raised”.
In a separate interview on “Meet the Press”, Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort dismissed criticism of his candidate as attacking the Khan family as part of “the Clinton narrative”. “If they do not, I will continue to speak”. Joined by running mate Sen.
“He was kind of trying to turn that into some kind of ridicule”, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said after a campaign event in Pittsburgh.
In an eight-minute speech, delivered by Khizr, the family questioned whether the NY businessman had ever read the US Constitution or sacrificed anything for his country.
Trump had first suggested Khan’s wife was not allowed to speak in an interview with The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, saying: “I’d like to hear his wife say something”. “If you look at his wife, she was standing there”, he said.
Clinton says she was afraid she might cry after seeing her daughter, Chelsea, on stage. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.
Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democratic rival in the November 8 election, said at a campaign rally on Saturday that Trump’s comments about the Khans were part of a long history of insulting people.
Khizr Khan’s wife, Ghazala Khan, responded to Trump in a Washington Post op-ed Sunday. I want his family to counsel him, teach him some empathy.
“When Donald Trump is talking about Islam, he is ignorant”, she wrote. “If he studied the real Islam and Koran, all the ideas he gets from terrorists would change, because terrorism is a different religion”.
“I appreciate his response, his press release that was issued last night, confirming that he accepts my son as a hero of this country”, Khan said.
“I work very, very hard”, Trump continued.
“If you don’t have any more sense of empathy than that, then I’m not sure you can learn it”, he said.
Former President Bill Clinton, who joined his wife and Kaine at the event, agreed: “I cannot conceive how you can say that about a Gold Star mother”. “Together, we should pray for his family”.
Allen says he doesn’t think he has to justify himself to Trump, who has never spent time in Afghanistan or Iraq and has never served in the military.
“While I feel deeply for the loss of his son, Mr. Khan who has never met me, has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the Constitution, (which is false) and say many other inaccurate things”, said Trump.
Clinton also criticized Trump over his Khan comments, saying he is “not a normal presidential candidate”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks, September 14, 2015, in Dallas.
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. “And the people inside, the staff, were holding her, consoling her”.
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In a June interview, the businessman said that as president he would “suspend immigration from areas of the world when there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe, or our allies”.
