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McCain slams Trump for Muslim family slurs

Khan’s father, Khizr, spoke at last week’s Democratic National Convention, where he now famously held up a pocket Constitution and offered to lend it to Trump.

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But he then seemed to equate his own sacrifices in the business world with the Khan’s sacrifice of their son.

Describing the late Capt. Humayun Khan and his family as heroes, Rubio called Trump’s comments “unfortunate” and the situation “bad”. Trump also compared their sacrifice to those he has made as a real estate developer.

I was very thankful to him that I thought that he was respectful to me as an individual. “My leader when I served down range in Iraq”, she said.

“The most painful thing that could happen is losing a child, and offending someone who has gone through that is the lowest of the lows”, she said. “It is destructive and tyrannical”, Becky Lourey said. She also urged Clinton to make an apology to Pat Smith, a speaker at the GOP convention, whose son was killed in Benghazi.

While Trump didn’t offer any details about his meeting with the Gold Star families in Jacksonville, he said, “the love in that room was so incredible”.

Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind., addresses supporters during a campaign event in Carson City, Nev., Monday, Aug, 1, 2016.

Democrats and Republicans alike have roundly condemned Trump for criticizing Khizr Khan for his appearance last week alongside his wife, Ghazala, at the Democratic gathering in Philadelphia.

“If you look at his wife, She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say”, Trump said to ABC.

Another Gold Star parent, Bruce Vrooman of Superior while Trump could have been more sensitive, he didn’t hear Trump say anything disparaging about the Kahn family.

The mogul’s sustained hostility toward the couple – alarming partly because criticism of Gold Star families has traditionally been off-limits in American political discourse – incensed Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war once mocked by Trump for being captured in Vietnam.

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U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, who has endorsed Trump but has not received a reciprocal endorsement from the NY businessman in his re-election bid, told WTAQ radio host Jerry Bader in Green Bay, Wisconsin, that Trump has “had a pretty unusual run since the convention”. She was extremely quiet. “The parents of the fallen suffer daily and never recover from the loss”.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is seen on day three of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland Ohio