Khan and his wife, who stood beside him, lost their son, a U.S. Army captain, in Iraq in 2004. He and first lady Michelle Obama spoke at last week’s Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
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After the Democratic National Convention, where Khizr Khan gave his powerful speech criticizing Trump and talking about his Muslim son who died in combat, Donald made a decision to attack the Khans rather than simply hearing out the family’s criticism and allowing the news cycle to move on.
Naqvi said he was pressing his registered Republican friends to do the same. Khan said that when he went, “I did what I do all the time”. “If he wants to make America great again, he should start by making things in America and there’s a lot he could learn by coming here”.
The loss of their son is the same loss that thousands – too many thousands – of other Gold Star families have experienced.
But Karen Vaughn, whose son Aaron, a Navy SEAL, died in Afghanistan, said she left it feeling that Trump understood where the families were coming from.
Donald Trump, for his part, described Humayun as “a hero to our country”, adding that “we should honor all who have made the ultimate sacrifice to keep our country safe”.
Other voters and politicos have begun to jump off of the low – but fast-moving – Trump train in favor of traveling the high road, as well. Go look at the graves of the courageous patriots who died defending America. We’re a better country because of you.
“Paul Ryan’s a good guy actually, I said Mike okay go endorse him”. Failing to help a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member, Cotton said, would embolden USA adversaries.
What followed were the words that have been most quoted since the speech.
“We need more candidates like Khizr Khan, not Donald Trump, to run for office in America”, Keefe wrote on the fundraising page. See what he has done by telling Donald, “You dodged the draft”.
“You have sacrificed nothing, and no one!”.
The father of the martyred soldier paid rich tribute to the martyrs and soldiers of Pakistan.
Trump responded in an interview with ABC’s “This Week”, saying: “If you look at his wife, she was standing there”. “I have Donald trump over here, a business person, that knows how to create jobs”.
Trump has insulted his opponents in all ways but analysts say his remarks against the Muslim parents could create a major challenge for him.
In a piece posted on the website of the hate group Shoebat Foundation, both men claim Khizr Khan is a “Muslim Brotherhood agent, working to bring Muslims into the United States”.
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It’s become apparent that Donald Trump is much more than a maverick outsider candidate who has an wonderful knack for politics. He vows to build walls and ban us from this country.
