{"id":3419,"date":"2016-10-27T18:06:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T18:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2016-10-27T18:26:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T18:26:58","slug":"us-election-cruel-trump-claim-annoys-muslim-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/10\/27\/us-election-cruel-trump-claim-annoys-muslim-family\/","title":{"rendered":"US election: &#8216;Cruel&#8217; Trump claim annoys Muslim family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Had I been president, Captain Khan would be alive today. We wouldn&#8217;t have been in this horrible, horrible mistake, the war in Iraq,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier&#8217;s father, Khizr Khan, said it was a &#8220;cruel&#8221; remark.<\/p>\n<p>He is campaigning for Hillary Clinton, who makes her first joint appearance with First Lady Michelle Obama later.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Khan&#8217;s son Humayun was killed by a car bomb in 2004 in Iraq at the age of 27.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Who was Capt Humayun Khan?<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">18 revelations from Wikileaks emails<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Our full US election coverage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Their grief became part of the presidential campaign in July when Khizr Khan made an emotional speech at the Democratic Convention attacking Mr Trump for anti-Muslim rhetoric, as his wife stood next to him.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican candidate&#8217;s reaction, in which he implied the mother was not allowed to speak up, attracted strong condemnation from within his own party.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/17FD\/production\/_92114160_gettyimages-584274482.jpg\" alt=\"Khizr Khan, father of deceased Muslim US soldier Humayun Khan, holds up a booklet of the US Constitution as he delivers an impassioned speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking to ABC News in an interview aired on Thursday, Mr Trump repeated his insistence that their son would be alive, but added he believed the soldier was a &#8220;great hero&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Mr Khan said: &#8220;This is the most cruel thing you can say to grieving parents, that if I was there this would not have happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other campaign development:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Mr Trump complained again about media bias, saying it was &#8220;the greatest pile-on in American history&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Mrs Clinton and Mrs Obama will share a stage in Winston Salem in North Carolina on Thursday<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Texas Senator Ted Cruz has said Republicans may decline to fill the vacancy on the bench of the Supreme Court<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">A former Republican congressman has said he will take up arms if Mrs Clinton wins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former Illinois Representative Joe Walsh tweeted: &#8220;On November 8th, I&#8217;m voting for Trump. On November 9th, if Trump loses, I&#8217;m grabbing my musket. You in?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He later said he was speaking metaphorically about &#8220;acts of civil disobedience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Clinton&#8217;s campaign is dealing with more questions arising from hacked emails published by Wikileaks.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign has seized on the latest dump to suggest the line between Bill Clinton&#8217;s personal income and the donations for the Clinton Foundation has been blurred.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Band, a top aide to Mr Clinton, said in an email that he had solicited donations to the foundation and also generated personal income for him through gifts and paid speeches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Had I been president, Captain Khan would be alive today. We wouldn&rsquo;t have been in this horrible, horrible mistake, the war in Iraq,&rdquo; he said. The soldier&rsquo;s father, Khizr Khan, said it was a &ldquo;cruel&rdquo; remark. He is campaigning for Hillary Clinton, who makes her first joint appearance with First Lady Michelle Obama later. Mr Khan&rsquo;s son Humayun was killed by a car bomb in 2004 in Iraq at the age of 27. Who was Capt Humayun Khan? 18 revelations from Wikileaks emails Our full US election coverage Their grief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3421,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/3421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}