In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Khizr Khan said that Trump doesn’t have a “moral compass”.
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Khan called Trump “a black soul” who is “unfit for the leadership of this handsome country”.
Donald Trump isn’t making it easy to be a Republican in 2016.
Clinton tells parishioners in a Cleveland church that Trump’s character is questionable because he repaid a family that made the “ultimate sacrifice” with “nothing but insults” and “degrading comments about Muslims”. Kelly Ayotte, a Republican seeking re-election in one of the nation’s most competitive Senate contests.
In a defensive crouch, Donald Trump complained Monday about being “viciously attacked” by the father of a decorated Muslim army captain killed in Iraq, persisting in an emotionally charged feud that has left him increasingly isolated among fellow Republicans.
At the Democratic convention, Khizr Khan told the story of his late son, Humayun, who received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart, and took Trump to task for threatening to ban Muslims, such as his son, from entering the US, asking if the presidential candidate had ever read the US Constitution. On Monday morning, Arizona Sen.
“They are self-serving half-truths from a self-serving half-man who has somehow convinced half the country that sacrifice is the same thing as success…Honestly, the main takeaway from these two weeks is that, incredibly, we may be on the brink of electing such a damaged, sociopathic narcissist that the simple presidential duty of comforting the families of fallen soldiers may actually be beyond his capabilities-and I genuinely did not think that was a part of the job that someone could be bad at”. “She was extremely quiet and it looked like she had nothing to say”, he said.
Criticising Mr Trump, Mr Khan said he “consistently smears the character of Muslims”. She could even lose both and still win if she takes a handful of other swing states that look strong for her, including Colorado and Virginia.
Asked on “New Day” to respond to Trump’s tweet, Khan said, “I spoke what was appropriate, and if he is watching, just imagine, there was no need to comment the way he commented”.
Ghazala Khan wrote in Sunday’s Washington Post that she did not speak because talking about her son’s death remains hard. And personally, I watched him. “That is not true”, she wrote.
Trump’s dispute with the Khans entangled his campaign in a days-long dispute at a moment when voters typically begin paying closer attention to the presidential race.
“Donald Trump has asked why I did not speak at the Democratic convention”.
Trump, in a statement Saturday, said Khan “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”.
Trump’s rebuke was unusual in the world of politics where officials only speak well of families whose loved ones die in service to their country. “These folks have nothing to do with Islam”, Khan said.
His wife said: “My religion or my family or my culture never stopped me from saying what I want to say. You have sacrificed nothing and no one”, he said. “I’ve gone to too many funerals, met too many families. What they’ve sacrificed is just unbelievable”.
Trump also tweeted that the focus should be on “radical Islamic terrorism”, not the Khans. The Khans are Muslim, and Trump questioned why Ghazala Khan did not speak.
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Last week, Pence said Russian Federation would face “serious consequences” for meddling in US elections at roughly the same time Trump appeared to encourage it, telling reporters he would welcome Russian Federation unearthing emails that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton deleted from the private servers she used while secretary of state.
