So when Karen Meredith heard the grieving parents of a decorated Muslim Army officer being belittled by Donald Trump, she cried.
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Celeste Zappala, who also signed the letter, said the grief that Gold Star families suffer earns them the right to say whatever they want.
The five-term senator narrowly leads his Democratic opponent, Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick.
In response to the speech of a Muslim father who lost his Army captain son in the service of our country, Trump, rather than expressing his sympathy for the family’s loss, chose to attack.
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His running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was confronted at an event in Nevada by a woman who said her son serves in the U.S. Air Force. Some of Trump’s supporters asserted, without any evidence, that the late Captain Khan was secretly an Islamist trying to hurt the U.S. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Sen.
“The presumptive Republican nominee has suggested Curiel’s Mexican-American heritage had influenced the judge’s opinion because of Trump’s campaign pledge to build a wall on the US-Mexico border”. She said she cried after hearing Trump’s comments, too. But they have repeatedly distanced themselves from the real estate mogul every time he sparks controversy.
Democratic pollster Paul Maslin said that while “ninety-nine percent of me says this is devastating for Trump”, Clinton backers can’t assume that another few days of bad headlines will sink a candidate who “simply defies all natural laws of American politics”. Khizr Khan strongly crticized Trump during the Democratic National Convention. John McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, as another example of what he said was a trend of Trump bad-mouthing the military.
Though Obama’s comments to veterans in Atlanta on Monday afternoon didn’t mention Trump by name, the President seemed to offer support to Khan’s perspective.
McCain said at fund-raiser in the spring that Trump’s spot at the top of the ticket made McCain’s Senate re-election campaign the “race of my life”.
When asked what that means, Pollock, elaborated: If members of the military believe they’ve been given an order that’s illegal or immoral, they’re oath-bound not to follow it, she said.
The furor surrounds Trump’s accusations against Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004. But he said the large amount of diversity in the USA military is important to the institution. “Ours is a sacrifice we would never want you to know”. The Michigan Republican Party is thankful to the Khan family, and to all of the others who so selflessly defend our country and our freedom in the United States military.
Another Republican Senator Susan Collins had also rebuked Donald Trump for his comments that had invoked the ethnic background of a federal judge to accuse the jurist of bias – calling those remarks “absolutely unacceptable”.
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Trump responded in an interview with ABC’s “This Week”, saying: “She had nothing to say. We are a testament to the goodness of this country”, he said.
