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Gold Star families demand Trump apologize for insensitivity
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father of a slain Muslim American war hero demolished Donald Trump in a
damning DNC speech. “You have sacrificed nothing,” Khizr Khan said,
just after drawing raucous applause when he offered to lend the GOP
nominee a copy of the U.S.
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Gold Star families demand apology from Trump as he continues to blast parents of slain Muslim-American U.S. Army captain
Father of Muslim US soldier challenges Donald Trump
NY Daily News
In a heartfelt joint letter to Trump published online Monday, 23 Gold Star families requested a formal apology from the GOP nominee for his comments about Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of slain U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan.
“Your recent comments regarding the Khan family were repugnant, and personally offensive to us,” the open letter stated. “When you question a mother’s pain, by implying that her religion, not her grief, kept her from addressing an arena of people, you are attacking us. When you say your job building buildings is akin to our sacrifice, you are attacking our sacrifice.
“We must speak out and demand you apologize to the Khans, to all Gold Star families, and to all Americans for your offensive, and frankly anti-American, comments,” the letter said.
Pakistani-born man was proud American, died as U.S. soldier
Khizr Khan, father of deceased Muslim-American soldier Capt. Humayun Khan, made an emotional speech at the Democratic National Convention.
(Alex Wong)“If a Gold Star family has something to say, you just say ‘Thank you,’ Zappala told the Daily News. “You don’t jump on them and criticize them.”
Zappala, whose son Sgt. Sherwood Baker died in April 2004 in Baghdad, just two months before Humayun Khan, questioned Trump’s leadership ability to be commander-in-chief.
Celeste Zappala carries a photograph of her son Sherwood Baker, who was killed while serving in Iraq.
(Warga, Craig)Trump attacks parents of Muslim-American war hero
Meanwhile, Khizr Khan urged Trump’s advisers “set him right.”
“Every decent Republican has rebuked his behavior, yet nobody has stood up and said: ‘Enough. Stop it. You will not be our candidate,’” Khan said Monday on CNN’s “New Day.”
“We are the solution to dealing with the terrorism in the United States,” Khan said, before signaling that he and his wife had no desire to remain in the spotlight.
Muslim-American war hero's parents hit back at Donald Trump
“I really want to maintain mine and my family’s dignity,” Khan said. “We want to be out of this controversy.”
“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,” said McCain, a former Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war who himself was smeared last year by the mogul. However, McCain, who has backed Trump for President, said nothing about withdrawing that endorsement.
On Sunday, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Trump’s vice presidential pick, Mike Pence, offered support to the Khans as well — but Ryan and McConnell didn’t even call out the Republican nominee by name for his criticism and didn’t come close to revoking their endorsements of him.
Retired general warns of 'civil military crisis' if Trump wins
Donald Trump has become increasingly volatile in attacking the Khans.
(Brennan Linsley/AP)Introducing Hillary Clinton in Omaha, Neb., billionaire Warren Buffett resurrected a line used against 1950s anti-Communist witch-hunter Joseph McCarthy: “I ask Donald Trump: Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
Trump, during a campaign stop Monday in Ohio, didn’t address the flap over his comments about the Khans.
But the GOP presidential nominee did say he fears the general election is somehow corrupted.
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“I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged, I have to be honest,” Trump told a town hall crowd in Columbus without elaborating.
With News Wire Services
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