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Khan suggests Trump meet with good Muslims' as McCain rips mogul
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Sen.
John McCain denounced Trump's comments, saying that, "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.
Khizr Khan urges Trump's advisers to 'set him right,' says he should 'join hands with good Muslims,' as McCain rips mogul for comments
Sen. John McCain denounced Trump's comments, saying that, "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."
(Kevin Hagen/AP)"Every decent Republican has rebuked his behavior, yet nobody has stood up and said: 'Enough. Stop it. You will not be our candidate,'" Khizr Khan, whose son Captain Humayun Khan was slain in 2004 by suicide bombers in Iraq, said Monday on CNN's "New Day."
But Khan also took a nobly conciliatory tone toward the bombastic billionaire, encouraging him to "join hands with good Muslims" in a unified effort to fight terrorism.
"We are the solution to dealing with the terrorism in the United States," Khan said, before signaling that he and his wife Ghazala Khan had no desire to remain in the spotlight.
Trump’s ‘sacrifices’ slammed and mocked on Twitter
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Meanwhile, Republican leaders, after a days-long silence following Trump's initial criticism of the Khans, continued to speak out against their nominee Monday.
McCain denounced Trump's comments, saying in a lengthy release that he "cannot emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump's statements."
Khizr Khan, father of fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan, holds up a copy of the Constitution during the Democratic National Convention.
(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)Trump attacks parents of Muslim-American war hero
"Lastly, I'd like to say to Mr. and Mrs. Khan thank you for immigrating to America. We're a better country because of you. And you are certainly right; your son was the best of America; and the memory of his sacrifice will make us a better nation," he added.
On Sunday, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Trump's veep pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, all offered support to the Khans as well, although Ryan and McConnell did not call out the Republican nominee by name for his criticism.
In any case, it took all of them several days to hit back at Trump, who in the aftermath of Khan's initial speech Thursday night, doubled down on his criticism of Muslim-Americans and offered nasty words for Khan's wife Ghazala, who stood steadfastly by her husband's side during the speech.
On stage Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Khan blasted Trump, saying, "you have sacrificed nothing and no one." Holding up a pocket-sized copy of the U.S. Constitution, Khan told Trump: "You're asking Americans to trust you with their future. Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution?" "I will gladly lend you my copy. In this document, look for the words, look for the words, liberty and equal protection (under) law."
Dad of Muslim American war hero rips Trump at DNC
Ghazala Khan herself bravely shot back at the mogul, defending, in an eloquent op-ed column in The Washington Post Sunday, her decision to not say anything at the DNC.
Donald Trump has not backed down from his criticism of the Khan family.
(Stacie Scott/AP)"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!" Trump tweeted midway through Khan's interview on CNN Monday morning.
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