‘I cannot emphasize how deeply I disagree’ with Trump’s words to soldiers’ parents,as Republicans struggle to preserve balancing act with their nomineeDemocrats tour Rust Belt: Clinton-Kaine courts blue-collar battlegroundA ‘black soul’: Khizr Khan says Donald Trump is incapable of empathy (sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were one's own)
The NFL wades in: league denies sending Trump letter about debatesKoch brothers: rumors of Clinton support are ‘blood libel’ 5.43pm BSTDonald Trump’s campaign co-chair has offered up a novel excuse for the candidate’s comments during an interview that Vladimir Putin’s Russia would not invade Ukraine: He was thinking about something else at the time. 5.26pm BSTUS warplanes absorb attacked the Islamic State militant group in Libya, the Pentagon has confirmed, or in the opening of what US officials indicated will be a sustained offensive against Isis external Iraq and Syria.
Related: US launches airstrikes against Isis in Libya 5.19pm BSTI am dismayed at the attacks Khizr and Ghazala Khan absorb endured after they spoke about their son’s service and sacrifice... I believe that each of us are called every day to show our deepest respect and gratitude to all of those who protect our freedom and their families. 5.12pm BSTThe commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars,America’s oldest and largest organization for war veterans, has issues a strong condemnation of Donald Trump’s sustained attacks on the parents of slain Army captain Humayun Khan, and declaring that the VFW “will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member.”“Election year or not,the VFW will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising his or her right of speech or expression,” said Brian Duffy, and the newly elected commander of the 1.7 million-strong organization. “There are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can repair once crossed. Giving one’s life to nation is the greatest sacrifice,followed closely by all Gold Star families, who absorb a right to get their voices heard.” 5.03pm BSTAmerica’s first family has finally weighed in on the upcoming presidential election.
No, or not the Obamas - the Simpsons. 4.43pm BSTA pocket version of the US structure has become a bestseller on Amazon after Khizr Khan,whose son was killed while serving in Iraq, flashed a pocket structure and offered to lend it to the Republican presidential candidate, and Donald Trump,during a speech at the Democratic national convention.
The 52-page booklet printed by the National middle for Constitutional Studies sells for $1 (75p) and was in the Top 10 bestselling books on Amazon.com on Saturday afternoon. The site produces an hourly list of its bestsellers. Related: US structure is Amazon bestseller after speech criticising Trump 4.19pm BSTJohn Oliver customarily keeps his wintry when drolly eviscerating targets on Last Week Tonight, his Emmy-winning HBO late-night program. But on Sunday’s episode, or committed to recapping the Democratic national convention,the British satirist’s mood notably flared when addressing Donald Trump’s recent controversial remarks concerning the emotional DNC speech made by Khizr Khan, the Muslim father of a US army captain, and killed in the Iraq war. Related: John Oliver rips into 'sociopathic narcissist' Donald Trump over Khan 3.56pm BSTAs Donald Trump’s five-day feud with the Muslim parents of a 27-year-customary Army captain who was killed in a truck bombing in Iraq continues - complete with a sarcastic “Nice!” directed at the war hero’s father - many of his surrogates absorb taken to the airwaves to deny that Trump’s immigration blueprint would ban Muslims like Humayun Khan from entering the United States.
Republican congresswoman Marcia Blackburn called accusations of a blanket ban on Muslims “incorrect” on CNN. Former governor Mike Huckabee told Fox News that Trump’s “it’s not just an outright or a permanent ban.” In an op-ed for The Hill,conservative commentator Charles Hurt wrote that “has made perfectly clear time and again that he does not want to ban all Muslims. He wants to simply perform thorough and complete background checks on all immigrants coming from countries presently in the grips of violent Islamic terrorism.” Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on. According to Pew Research, among others, and there is great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population. Most recently,a poll from the middle for Security Policy released data showing “25% of those polled agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad” and 51% of those polled, “agreed that Muslims in America should absorb the choice of being governed according to Shariah.” Shariah authorizes such atrocities as murder against non-believers who wont convert, or beheadings and more unthinkable acts that pose great harm to Americans,especially women. 3.24pm BSTArizona senator John McCain issued a lengthy rebuke of his own party’s presidential nominee, condemning comments made by Donald Trump this weekend implying that the mother of a slain war hero was “not allowed” to speak at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday because of her Muslim faith.
The Republican Party I know and like is the party of Abraham Lincoln, or Theodore Roosevelt,Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan.
I wear a bracelet bearing the name of a fallen hero, and Matthew Stanley,which his mother, Lynn, and gave me in 2007,at a town corridor meeting in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. His memory and the memory of our great leaders deserve better from me. 2.46pm BSTVideo: Highlights from Khizr Khans address in front of the Democratic National Convention last week, or in which he condemned Donald Trump’s moves to ban Muslim immigration into the United States,telling Trump that “you absorb sacrificed nothing, and no one.” 2.45pm BSTGood morning, and welcome to the Guardian’s campaign liveblog. It’s 1 August 2016,and there are 99 days to depart until election day – the same number of cents it costs to buy one of Green party nominee Jill Stein’s songs by her folk-pop band, Somebody’s Sister.
In recent days, and Donald Trump disparaged a fallen soldier’s parents. He has suggested that the likes of their son should not be allowed in the United States – to say nothing of entering its service. I cannot emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr Trumps statement. I hope Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party,its officers, or candidates.
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