Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence defended a military mom’s right to criticize Donald Trump’s comments about the Muslim parents of a slain U.S. Army veteran during a campaign stop in Nevada, and then lashed out at the media’s coverage of the controversy at the next.
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“It’s hard”, said Jeff Atwater, the state’s chief financial officer and one of three statewide elected officials on the Florida Cabinet. “You, Mr. Trump, deserve our contempt”.
“This man is running for president of the United States and it is ridiculous for him to speak to individuals in this insulting manner and to the Muslim religion”, Davey said.
Republicans, from Trumps staunch supporters to those who have previously been reluctant to engage with Trump, have spoken out overwhelmingly in support of the Khans.
Ghazala Khan, whom Trump questioned for standing by quietly as her husband talked about their son, spoke out in Monday’s Washington Post. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire.
“It is time for Donald Trump to set the example for our country and the future of the Republican Party”, he said. “I just can tell you from my standpoint I’m appreciate of everybody that served”. Can Mr. Khan please point that out to me? He’s now appeared on other shows, he’s become Hillary Clinton’s attack dog.
“She’s the devil. He made a deal with the devil”, Trump said referring to the agreement between the Vermont senator and Clinton.
In the document, obtained from a congressional source, the campaign argued that this is not fight between Trump and the Khan family but ”this is really about Mr. Trump vs. Hillary Clinton and who has the best vision for defeating radical Islamic terrorism“.
But PolitFact, the fact-checking news service that’s allied with The Buffalo News, has reported that there is no clear evidence that Trump opposed the Iraq War, which Clinton voted to support while serving as a USA senator from NY.
Brian Duffy, the head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the US, said Trump’s criticism of the Khans was uncalled for and that the group would not tolerate attacks on families who have lost loved ones who were serving in the USA armed services. “It’s not anything to do with the Muslim faith”.
Obama described his feelings about Trump as unprecedented, recalling disagreements with previous GOP presidential nominees Sen.
“While our Party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us”, McCain, who was a prisoner of war for five years during the Vietnam War, wrote in a long statement.
“Probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say”.
I can not emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trumps statements.
The uproar over Donald Trump’s criticism of a bereaved Army family put vulnerable GOP senators in a tight spot, underscoring anew the political challenges created for Republicans by their newly minted presidential nominee. “Giving one’s life to a nation is the greatest sacrifice, followed closely by all Gold Star families, who have a right to make their voices heard”.
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Trump retaliated by attacking the Khizr Khan via Twitter.
