Trump off base on Khans, state politicians sayTrump off base on Khans, state politicians say
Washington, DC,
August 2, 2016
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By Michael R. Wickline
Republican U.S. Sen. John Boozman and his Democratic challenger, Conner Eldridge, both panned Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday for Trump's criticism of a speech given at last week's Democratic National Convention by the Muslim parents of a U.S. Army captain who died in Iraq. At the convention, Khizr Khan, who was born in Pakistan, questioned whether Trump had ever read the U.S. Constitution and, addressing Trump, said, "You have sacrificed nothing." Then, Trump said, "While I feel deeply for the loss of his son, Mr. Khan, who has never met me, has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the Constitution (which is false) and say many other inaccurate things," and that Khan's wife "had nothing to say" while she stood at her husband's side during the speech.... Click here to read the entire story. |