Democratic Convention speaker Khizr Khan, whose son was killed in Iraq back in 2004 while serving in the Army, said Trump’s response to his speech was “typical of a person without a soul.”
Khan, in an interview with the Washington Post, said Trump “is void of empathy. He is unfit for the stewardship of this great country.”
Trump had said after the Democratic convention that he wanted to see what Khan’s wife, Ghazala, had to say as she was by Khan’s side while he delivered the speech in Philadelphia, suggesting she was prevented from speaking because she is a Muslim woman.
Responding to the uproar that followed, Trump put out another statement that said that Khan’s son, who posthumously received a Bronze Star and Purple Heart, was a hero and should be honored, according to the Washington Post. He later said that the real problem was “radical Islamic terrorists who killed him” and tweeted the message as well.
Captain Khan, killed 12 years ago, was a hero, but this is about RADICAL ISLAMIC TERROR and the weakness of our “leaders” to eradicate it!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 31, 2016
Khan told the Post that the latest statement was “faked empathy” and that the original statement attacking his wife was what “defines him.”
Sunday, appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Khan upgraded — or downgraded — Trump to having a soul, but a “black” one.
“I want his family to counsel him. He would be a better person if he could … But he is a black soul,” Khan said.
Khan assailed Trump for attacking his wife, the mother of a U.S. soldier killed in battle.
“She has written an op-ed in her own words, in her voice why she didn’t speak,” Khan noted. “For this candidate for presidency [to not show] respect of a Gold Star mother standing there, and he had to take that shot at her — this is height of ignorance. This is why I showed him that Constitution.”
