“I was viciously attacked by Mr. Khan at the Democratic Convention”.
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The Republican nominee lashed out at Khizr Khan, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin and a Muslim, when Mr Khan told of his war hero son at the convention and took issue with Mr Trump’s call for a temporary ban on the entry of Muslims into the United States.
In his first reaction, during an ABC News interview, Trump questioned why Khan’s wife did not speak alongside him at the Democratic convention, implying that she had been forbidden from doing so. Trump responded by saying he’d made “a lot of sacrifices” and implied that Ghazala Khan’s Muslim faith prevented her from speaking.
“If you look at his wife, she was standing there”, he said Saturday on ABC News. “Maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. And I will let others draw their own conclusions about the language used and the approach taken by Donald Trump”, Clinton said.
The controversy started when Khan said on the convention stage last week in Philadelphia that Trump has “sacrificed nothing and no one” for America.
But John Kasich, the OH governor who sought the GOP presidential nomination, said on Twitter, “There’s only one way to talk about Gold Star parents: with honor and respect”.
Clinton’s comments came after Trump refused to back down from his criticism of the Gold Star parents’ remarks.
“Sacrifice – I don’t think he knows the meaning of sacrifice, the meaning of the word. As as I have long made clear, I agree with the Khans and families across the country that a travel ban on all members of a religion is simply contrary to American values”.
In a wide-ranging interview on “Fox News Sunday”, Clinton said the majority of voters approved of her work as a USA senator and as secretary of State under President Barack Obama.
“Many Muslim Americans have served valiantly in our military, and made the ultimate sacrifice”.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, reprimanded Trump on Sunday, saying at a church in Cleveland that he had answered the Khan family’s sacrifice with personal disrespect, and with disrespect for American traditions of religious tolerance. 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”.
He then implied that Ghazala Khan might not have been allowed to speak at the DNC.
“I implore those patriotic Americans that would probably vote for Donald Trump in November; I appeal to them not to vote for hatred, not to vote for fear-mongering”, Khizr Khan said. She said she has reached out to them. “Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?” she wrote, after explaining the deep pain she felt after losing her son.
Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager, also weighed in, telling CBS’s “Face the Nation” that “Mr. Trump certainly feels sorry for what the Khan family has gone through”.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine also expressed shock at Trump’s comments on the Khans, stating that his remarks demonstrated his “temperamental unfitness”.
He said those GOP leaders have a “moral, ethical obligation to not worry about the votes but repudiate him; withdraw the support. If you’re going to be leader of the free world, you have to be able to accept criticism, and Mr. Trump can’t”.
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She continued that argument in a Washington Post opinion piece on Sunday that also included an attack on Trump. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures.
