Public outrage grows over Trump’s Gold Star family comments

So, for my final point, I’ll share another portion of McCain’s statement issued Monday morning: “I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers, or candidates”.

John McCain, a former prisoner of war, led the charge, saying Trump did not have “unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us”.

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst issued a statement that did not mention Trump, but said it’s important to “express our gratitude” to “Gold Star” parents.

Khizr Khan – whose son Humayun was killed in Iraq in 2004 – accused Trump of smearing Muslims and having “sacrificed nothing” himself. I know that they want the world to know their son’s story of service and sacrifice, and I know that they could have never imagined that their story would be politicized in the way that it has. The tradition continued through the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam War and up through today’s conflicts.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez – the nation’s only Latina governor and the chair of the Republican Governors Association – is joining a chorus of Republican lawmakers in disavowing Donald Trump’s repeated criticisms of a bereaved military family. Where Trump has questioned the value of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and its current function, Obama promised the United States would honor the alliance.

Other Republicans also rebuked the developer and former reality star, including Sen.

Some Republicans said privately that it was the timing of this flare-up that had them on edge – the spectacle of their candidate tangling with a military family just three months before Election Day.

“We work in a sacred space, and we’ve never been challenged this way”, said Carroll, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom a year ago for her work with military families. “The problem is, “unacceptable” doesn’t even begin to describe it”.

The VFW statement came just hours after a group of Gold Star families wrote to Trump.

“There are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can fix once crossed”, he said. “We have the most capable fighting force in history and we’re going to keep it that way”, he said. She said she cried after hearing Trump’s comments, too.

Instead, Trump tried to identify a weakness and attack Mrs. Khan for not speaking beside her husband.

“If you look at his wife, She had nothing to say. Your future is gone”, she says. She got a laugh by beginning: “You’re all probably wondering: who the heck is this sweet little old lady?”

“Let me say this”, said Obama.

On Monday evening, a concerned mother of an airman asked Trump’s running mate, Gov. Mike Pence, about the attacks on Khan’s family. Walking onto the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself. Am I not allowed to respond? And yet the origins of the military Gold Star reach back to the service flag, a banner first flown during World War I by households that had sent loved ones to fight. Trump tweeted late Sunday.