“In recent days, Donald Trump disparaged a fallen soldier’s family”, McCain said.
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Donald Trump’s son says that his father’s comments about the family of a USA soldier killed in Iraq were “honestly blown out of proportion”.
“The terrible things I am hearing, that are spreading through the media, these statements that are being left unchecked, are part of a wave of the old regime saying things that they couldn’t say 10 years ago, and five years ago”, he said.
“Most people in this country, before this, did not know what a Gold Star family was, let alone what our sacrifice was”, Meredith said.
President Barack Obama addressed the Disabled American Veterans’ annual conference in Atlanta on Monday.
17 gold-star military families demanded an apology, writing, “This goes beyond politics”.
At last week’s Democratic convention, the Pakistan-born Khizr Khan told his son’s story, questioned whether Trump had ever read the Constitution and said “you have sacrificed nothing”.
“The comments about Mrs. Khan because she didn’t speak on stage, that seemed very cruel”, she said.
“We honor him and honor his family as we do all Gold Star families”, Pence told the woman in Carson City, Nevada, after she asked the vice presidential nominee how he could tolerate Trump’s “disrespect”.
“It’s imperative that Republicans up and down the ballot, especially in Virginia, set an example and be leaders on this issue by condemning Donald Trump”.
He called the Khans’ son “an American hero” and said, “We cherish his family”.
Yet as Democrats were quick to point out, most of the Republicans criticizing Trump had already declared their plans to vote for him for president, and despite their collective outrage, none of them withdrew their support.
In the talking points sent to lawmakers, the Trump campaign said he had been asked about the Khans’ comments during the convention and wished them well.
“If you put yourself on the line to serve this country, you deserve that respect”, Dave Higdon said.
Trump advisers have spent months trying to help the political novice do just that. Aides say Trump often professes to understand the risks of fueling a controversy, but he can get drawn back. “He’ll have to learn to grow out of it”.
Candidates have also wrestled with whether to appear alongside Trump when he campaigns in their states.
Former 2016 White House candidate Jeb Bush blasted Trump’s statements as “incredibly disrespectful”, while the chairman of the Republican National Committee signaled he, too, was shocked by the billionaire.
In the contest for an open seat representing the 5th Congressional district where the Khans live, Democratic candidate Jane Dittmar called on her opponent, state Sen.
“Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same – Nice!”
During his speech Khan (who is the father of Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004) held up his own version of the Constitution after denouncing Trump’s proposals and statements.
During the speech, Khan’s wife, Ghazala, stood quietly by his side. “She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say”.
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Hardy said Trump should apologize immediately, and said anything less would be unbecoming of the office he seeks.
