Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has once again sparked outrage, this time for his comments about a dead U.S. soldier’s mother, singling her out for being Muslim.
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“I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures”, Trump told host George Stephanopoulos.
United States billionaire Donald Trump has belittled the parents of a slain Muslim soldier who had strongly denounced him during the Democratic National Convention, saying that the soldier’s father had delivered the entire speech because his mother was not “allowed” to speak.
She did, with an emotional response on Sunday. “There is no truth to that. Yet he comes back again on the same thing”, Khan said.
Top Republican lawmakers, Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, also condemned Trump’s remarks, although they did not mention their presidential candidate by name.
Khan said that he did not believe that Trump’s divisive rhetoric qualified him to be president.
“I said: “I really don’t, I have my thoughts in my head, ‘” Khan told the Times, adding, “‘Just let me say what I want to say.
Ryan had a similar view. “He said he would like to hear from me. I reject it”, he said. Clinton said that Trump’s comments only serve to reinforce “the doubts that many Americans should have about his campaign”. In Ashland, Clinton said that she “respect [s] and honor [s] the service of Captain Khan and the extraordinary dignity and bravery of his parents”.
By raising questions about why Ghazala Khan was silent as her husband spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, he essentially dared her to step forward.
Trump Saturday night tried to soften his criticism somewhat in a press release.
The Khans, whose son Humayan Khan, an army captain, was killed in Iraq in 2004 and posthumously received a Purple Heart, resonated with Muslims across the country.
But he remained angry at Trump.
“There are principles of equal dignity, principle of liberty”.
“He talks about excluding people, disrespecting judges, the entire judicial system, immigrants, Muslim immigrants”.
“Donald Trump has asked why I did not speak at the Democratic convention“, she wrote in a powerful new essay on Sunday morning.
That didn’t stop Donald Trump from making a very inelegant go of it.
“When Donald Trump is talking about Islam, he is ignorant”, she wrote. “It may change some minds of people who may be leaning one way or the other…certainly there is a core of support for Donald Trump, which is not going to be dissuaded from voting for him by this particular incident”. “He doesn’t know what the word sacrifice means”.
Khizr Khan immediately struck back, calling the statement “faked empathy” that is “typical for a person without a soul”. “This candidate is void of both traits that are necessary for the stewardship of this country”.
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Khan’s wife, Ghazala Khan, writing in the Washington Post, also issued a rebuttal to Trump’s later comments directed at her which suggested that Islamic dogma forbade her from speaking freely about the loss of her son.
