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Bill Clinton and Kaine lambast Trump for lack of empathy for Khans

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's top surrogates are taking aim at rival Donald Trump for criticizing Ghazala Khan, the bereaved mother of a Muslim Army captain, a comment that sparked outrage across the political spectrum on Saturday. At the DNC, Lawyer Khizr Khan gave a moving tribute to their son, Humayun, who received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart after he was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004. During the speech, Khan's wife, Ghazala, stood silently by his side, wearing a headscarf.

 

"If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me," Trump said, in an interview with ABC's "This Week."

 

"He was kind of trying to turn that into some kind of ridicule," Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said after a campaign event in Pittsburgh. "It just demonstrates again kind of a temperamental unfitness. If you don't have any more sense of empathy than that, then I'm not sure you can learn it." Former President Bill Clinton, who joined his wife and Kaine at the event, agreed: "I cannot conceive how you can say that about a Gold Star mother."

 


פרסום ראשון: 07.31.16, 08:00