Donald Trump went on the offensive Sunday in response to criticism of his comments about a Muslim Democratic convention speaker.
“I was viciously attacked by Mr. Khan at the Democratic Convention,” he tweeted on Sunday. Trump was referring to Khizr Khan, a Muslim lawyer whose son was in the Army and died in Iraq in 2004. Khan in his speech asked Trump if he had even read the Constitution and said that Trump has “sacrificed nothing and no one.”
I was viciously attacked by Mr. Khan at the Democratic Convention. Am I not allowed to respond? Hillary voted for the Iraq war, not me!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 31, 2016
Trump added that “am I not allowed to respond? Hillary voted for the Iraq war, not me!”
Trump was heavily criticized for his first response to Khan’s speech, in which he questioned why Khan’s wife, Ghazala, didn’t say anything while her husband delivered the speech. He then suggested that she may have been silenced by the Clinton campaign.
Trump later tweeted on late Saturday that he considered the Khans’ son a “hero” who should be “honored.”
