Tim Kaine on a bus-tour through OH and Pennsylvania.
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First, Trump suggested that Ghazala didn’t speak at the convention – only Khizr did – because her Muslim faith stopped her from publicly talking. John McCain, whom Trump once mocked for being shot down and captured during the Vietnam War, issued a almost 700-word statement denouncing Trump’s critiques of the Khans. Trump speculated that Khizr’s wife Ghazala was not permitted to speak.
“You keep bringing up radical Islamic terrorism”, Stelter said.
Khizr Khan spoke with his wife, Ghazala, at his side – leading Trump to argue she wasn’t allowed to speak due to their faith. “She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say”, EFE news quoted Trump as saying. Trump said in an interview with ABC News’.
“Without saying a thing, all the world, all America, felt my pain”, she wrote. The couple has said she chose not to speak at the convention because discussing her son’s death would have been too hard for her.
Khan, a Pakistani immigrant and lawyer, criticized Trump’s statement during the presidential campaign that Muslims should not be allowed into the US. If he studied the real Islam and Quran, all the ideas he gets from terrorists would change, because terrorism is a different religion.
Khizr Khan told CNN on Monday that “We want to be out of this controversy”.
Mr Trump responded, saying, like the Khans, he, too, has made sacrifices.
“His sacrifice should be honoured and it’s just not how I was raised or taught in my church”, she said.
Ghazala Khan wrote in a Washington Post op-ed published Sunday: “Walking onto the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself”.
Donald Trump said I had nothing to say. I do.
Both House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued statements praising Capt Humayun Khan, who was awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart after he was killed in Iraq in 2004.
Governor John Kasich of OH, a former Republican presidential candidate, tweeted: “There’s only one way to talk about Gold Star parents: with honour and respect”.
In interviews Sunday, Khan thanked Trump for calling his son a hero, but said Trump is being “disingenuous” because of his campaign rhetoric. “I believe that each of us are called every day to show our deepest respect and gratitude to all of those who protect our freedom and their families”.
Ghazala Khan broke her silence to respond on national television. “I have email mailbox full of assurances that I am right, we are right, and he needs to mend his way to deserve their vote”.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accused Trump of insulting a family who had sacrificed so much.
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Clinton used her first television interview since officially clinching the Democratic nomination to cast Trump as dangerously pro-Russia and an unknown quantity for USA voters. “Why would you so sad?’ A four year-old person can feel that sadness, yet the candidate for the president of the United States cannot empathise with the people that he wishes to lead?”
