What if their response to Trump's feud with the Khans hadn't been to defend the Khans but to attack Hillary Clinton and tout Trump's (fictitious) opposition to the Iraq War?
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" Walker said his defense of the Khans was "personal.
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And that cant start until he apologizes to the Khans.
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" Trump said as the Khans appeared on CNN's "New Day.
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Now the Khans will be in the press for days.
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When the Khans visit the cemetery, the ritual is different now.
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Like the Khans, my parents are Muslim immigrants originally from Pakistan.
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Trump's attack on the Khans represents another incremental uptick in voltage.
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Razvi feared for neighborhood residents, and especially families like the Khans.
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Churches, mosques and khans that have stood for centuries lie in ruins.
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The Veterans of Foreign Wars called his comments about the Khans inexcusable.
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Fortunately for the Clinton campaign, Trump's unflattering headlines didn't end with the Khans.
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Meanwhile, Trump's team launched a racist and xenophobic smear campaign against the Khans.
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Her son gave his life for the country, as did the Khans' son.
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He was appalled, he said, about the Republican nominee's criticism of the Khans.
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The Khans had been one sort of family and now they are another.
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The Khans' son, Humayun, was killed on the battlefield in Iraq in 2004.
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It's no wonder that Trump's attack on the Khans generated almost no support.
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Remember that Hillary Clinton voted for the war the Khans lost a son in.
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Trump lashed out against the Khans and consequently suffered his worst three days yet.
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Trump lashed out against the Khans and consequently suffered his worst three days yet.
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I will be in the first generation of Khans not to be an immigrant.
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And he has not apologized to the Khans for his comments about Ms. Khan.
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Late Sunday, Mr. Pence issued a statement sidestepping Mr. Trump's criticism of the Khans.
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Scarborough additionally slammed Republicans for not abandoning Trump over his battle with the Khans.
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The Khans, a Muslim family, immigrated to the United States from the United Arab Emirates.
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Rubio on Monday called Trump's feud with the Khans "unfortunate" before praising the family's patriotism.
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The Khans lost their son, Humayun, an Army captain, while he was serving in Iraq.
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A few Republicans in Washington even suggested that Mr. Trump should apologize to the Khans.
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Look around you — at O'Shaunnessys and Riveras and Naccaratos and Goldbergs and Chens and Khans.
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The impolitic statements let the media run with the story days after the Khans' speech.
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Trump will get the Khans more press and more visibility than the DNC ever did.
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Trump also wanted the Khans to know that, like them, he had sacrificed for this country.
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" King tried again to push Trump on the Khans: "Do you think he's wrong on this?
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And so after the Khans were married, they moved to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
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The Khans invited her to stay with them, and she did, from May until August 2006.
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The Khans appeared at the 2016 Democratic National Convention and were later mocked by the president.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars, the country's oldest and largest veterans organization, condemnded Trump's feud with the Khans.
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When criticized for going after the Khans, Trump defended his comments by arguing he was just getting even.
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Trump's ongoing dispute with the Khans has become a call to political action for Kevin Ahearn of Phoenix.
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Even longtime ally Chris Christie, the Republican New Jersey governor, said it was inappropriate to attack the Khans.
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The Khans, originally from Pakistan, immigrated to the United States in the 1970s from the United Arab Emirates.
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The senior Trump has so far not apologized for his remarks toward the Khans, despite Eric Trump's claim.
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The widest releases typically go to the Khans of Bollywood who capture 4,000-5,000 screens with every film.
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Another Republican Senator -- Roy Blunt of Missouri -- also issued a statement Monday admonishing Trump and praising the Khans.
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The Khans have made the greatest possible sacrifice for our country; they deserve to be heard and respected.
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We know this by, of course, looking at the Khans, Shahid and Tony, who are the co-owners.
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The Khans remained in New York so that Mansoor could continue to see his doctors at Mount Sinai.
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Those attacks were widely viewed to have backfired, and Mr. Trump later modulated his words about the Khans.
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Smith spoke at the Republican National Convention, and the Khans spoke at the Democratic gathering a week later.
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Trump took to Twitter and repeatedly attacked the Khans, including suggesting that Ghazala Khan was not "allowed" to speak.
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During Sunday night's debate, Hillary Clinton criticized Trump for never apologizing for the comments he made about the Khans.
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Since Trump and the Khans have locked horns, some Google searches have risen that are related to the controversy.
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Friends of the Khans who live in the area make frequent stops to collect the items, for later delivery.
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Roger Palmer, an Army veteran, said Mr. Trump's treatment of the Khans and of Mr. McCain had been unpresidential.
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His campaign staff has claimed Obama's Iraq War policies were at fault for the Khans' son's death in 2004.
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The son who put the Khans in the spotlight Trump then pocketed the decoration after the veteran left the stage.
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Vaughn organized the meeting between Trump and the families, and said that the Khans were not a topic of discussion.
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At around the same time, the Khans continued a media tour that had them appear on several morning news shows.
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Several prominent Republicans have condemned Mr. Trump's treatment of the Khans, calling his behavior outside the bounds of political discourse.
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And, oh, how the Khans loved hearing this conviction in a young man, this resolute belief in guarding American democracy.
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John McCain issued a statement condemning Trump's comments about the Khans and saying the nominee does not represent the Republican party.
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Q: You are part of the next generation of actors after the Khans, all of whom enjoy a huge fan following.
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Trump tweeted during the interview that the issue was not the Khans, it was stopping the spread of radical Islamic terrorism.
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It deals with the bloody rivalries of the early 19th century between the Emirs of Bukhara and the Khans of Kokand.
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The Jaguars have been analytical since the Khans took over, and it hasn't done them much good on the field yet.
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Beyond the proven success of the Khans at Diwali, Christmas and Eid, Bollywood's producers still rely on superstition to find success.
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After Trump's comments about Khizr and Ghazala Khan, representatives from 23 Gold Star families wrote an open letter defending the Khans.
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Following Trump's response, the Khans and other Gold Star families have received an outpouring of support from both Republicans and Democrats.
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The letters collected from the grave site end up piled in boxes on the dining room table at the Khans' home.
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Often, the Khans would show the cadets the room for them to understand the magnitude of the step they were taking.
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The Khans appeared on CNN early on Monday to talk about their son and the speech Khizr gave at the DNC.
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The Khans appeared on behalf of Hillary Clinton during the Democratic convention, and later came under sharp criticism from Mr. Trump.
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Clinton the week after the convention for her infrastructure plan or her advanced manufacturing plan; he hurled attacks at the Khans.
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It's easy to forget now, but the Khans didn't appear in the 10 to 11 pm hour carried by the networks.
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John McCain issue a very personal statement Monday blasting Trump's comments about the Khans and paying homage to their son Humayun's sacrifice.
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And the media has given attention to Trump's criticism of the Khans, highlighting again the Republican candidate's apparent Islamophobia in the process.
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"She didn't speak because she was grieving," added Allen, who spoke at the Democratic convention on the same night as the Khans.
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Mac Thornberry, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, also issued a statement saying he was appalled by attacks on the Khans.
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He was tempted to bail when Trump had his abominable fight with the Khans, the gold-star family, after the Democratic primary.
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There are different vantages from which to understand the Khans' middle son, Humayun, and one of them is through Amir Ali Guerami.
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Kelly forget that it was Trump who callously attacked a Gold Star family — the Khans — during the summer political conventions of 2016?
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The next day, Razvi joined Tahira and a few friends in the Khans' cramped living room, as Tahira tearfully told the story.
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The avenue is the center of Little Pakistan, where thousands of immigrants like the Khans have settled in the past several decades.
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Trump's feud with the Khans was the final straw for Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger, a former Air Force pilot and Iraq war veteran.
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Yet while Smith's speech has been rarely mentioned since, the Khans have emerged as far more eloquent critics of Trump than Clinton herself.
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Indeed, in a result that should surprise no one, the Fox News poll finds that Trump's attacks on the Khans are wildly unpopular.
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But even as the Khans expressed their desire to leave the controversy behind, Trump responded to the criticism during the interview on Twitter.
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The Khans have said they are private people but have felt compelled to call out Trump, making the rounds on TV. http://bit.
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Regarding this latest Trump insult against the Khans, the loud and rising chorus of condemnation may well force Trump to retract his comments.
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Each "hold" was an amorphous piece of resin cast against the curves of Khans body and embellished with gold chains and black hair.
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The Khans spoke to stand up for the patriotism of Muslim Americans, not to accuse Trump of literally having blood on his hands.
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VICE sent photographer Maggie Shannon to cover the event, and she came back with Tribble-filled wonder, Scotty lookalikes, and at least five Khans.
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Mr. Trump had criticized the Khans after they honored their son at the Democratic National Convention and urged people to vote for Mrs. Clinton.
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But Democrats said the period of wondering whether Mr. Trump could become a more disciplined candidate had ended with his attacks on the Khans.
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He also belittled Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, who had criticized his treatment of the Khans, for not being supportive of his campaign.
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The Khans spoke out against Trump at the Democratic convention in 2016, expressing concern about his proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States.
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In total, there are now some hundred and fifty or two hundred Khans, mostly in Wyoming, though also in South Dakota, Colorado, and beyond.
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Colvin was the one who organized the protests against it, and, according to the Khans, threatened to train a scope on it as well.
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At the Genghis museum built by Battulga's company, Sumati said the president should take note of how long Mongolia's old Khans lasted in power.
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Top Indian actors like the Khans, Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn usually charge astronomical fees, raising overheads and making any star vehicle an expensive film.
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The Khans bristled at that suggestion and, in numerous television appearances over the weekend, said Trump was ignorant about Islam and about their family's sacrifice.
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Mr. McCain released a searing statement on Monday invoking his own family's long history of military service to denounce Mr. Trump's comments about the Khans.
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She could never truly know how the Khans felt in losing their son, but she felt she might be able to understand better than most.
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"The Khans didn't become bitter when they lost their son or become angry with the military," said Joe Riley, a cadet who graduated in 2013.
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It advances the notion that the Khans' objections to Trump's Islamophobia were illegitimate, and that Weinstein's misconduct somehow invalidates the liberal criticism of Trump's misogyny.
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At a campaign stop in Northern Virginia, he avoided mentioning the Khans by name, but continued to grumble about his treatment by the news media.
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While the Arizona senator, who is running for reelection, rebuked Trump's comments about the Khans, he did not rescind his endorsement of the presidential nominee.
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Like the Khans, Colvin's family has been in the West for a long time, though it represents a very different strain of the American character.
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Statement from the Khans—after Trump said their son would still be alive today if he were president because he wouldn't have gone into Iraq pic.twitter.
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" Trump's office later released the full transcript of his comments about the Khans in the ABC News interview, in a statement called "Setting the record straight.
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All this said, it should not be forgotten that the tragic loss of the Khans' son in the Iraq invasion and occupation was not Trump's fault.
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" Asked on ABC News Friday morning if the newly contrite Trump would offer the Khans a personal apology, new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said, "He may.
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Trump has drawn disapproval from all sides after he criticized the Khans, who are Muslim, following their heartfelt speech at the Democratic National Convention last week.
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Other actors and their producers must launch their films at other, less profitable times, such as Independence Day—or await an off-year for the Khans.
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The Khans are what is known in the United States as a "Gold Star Family," meaning they have lost an immediate relative in a military action.
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Now, Ms. Quast said, she resents Mr. Trump's disrespectful language about the military, including his response to the Khans and his joke about the Purple Heart.
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He made a third attempt to deflect the Khans' criticism on Sunday, writing on Twitter that the real issue at stake in the election was terrorism.
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" At a town-hall-style gathering on Monday in Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Trump did not mention the Khans but said of veterans, "I know the vets.
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It was important to the Khans to know the R.O.T.C. cadets, really know them, and so they began the ritual of the dinners at their house.
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Some Republicans, like the House speaker, Paul Ryan; the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell; and Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire released statements defending the Khans.
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Set during the 1366 rebellion against Mongol rule in China, it pits determined rebel forces against the title character, one of the Khans of Genghis's line.
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The Khans, who have become outspoken critics of the president, first made national headlines when Khizr Khan blasted Trump at the Democratic National Convention last year.
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A lot of conversations I've had with antitrust people like the Tim Wus and Lina Khans of the world, they're saying we need to change the standard.
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Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), had previously praised the Khans, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention last week, in a statement that made no mention of Trump.
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The Khans were were offered the usual precautions about getting through the heavy security at the Wells Fargo Arena: bring as little as possible to save time.
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They note, by way of example, that Smith's speech at the GOP convention did not gain anywhere close to the traction of the Khans' address to Democrats.
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The Khans were on "Meet the Press" and "State of the Union" and "PBS NewsHour," some dozen news shows in all, fresh arrivals in the political process.
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"The last week he would not drop this thing with the Khans and he would not get back on message," a source close to the campaign said.
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Not a lot of people have—he doesn't have the campaigning budget of your Goldsmiths, Khans, or that smiley, thumby guy standing for the British Nationalist Party.
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The Khans have been critical of Trump dating back to the 2016 election when they were at the center of a controversial feud with the then-Republican candidate.
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He had these old-fashioned ideas that when I bravely took on the Khans and that rude baby at the rally that I was punching below my weight.
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A few months after their son's death, the Khans moved to Charlottesville, where their other two sons were living, so they could try to recover as a family.
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After the Khans appeared at the Democratic National Convention and challenged Trump's understanding of the United States Constitution, Trump derided the Khan family in an interview with ABC.
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" This woman, Andrea Peyser, now declares, "I can no longer justify calling myself a Trump supporter," citing his feud with the Khans and his general "lunacy and bigotry.
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This not only shows a total lack of empathy and sympathy for grieving parents of a veteran, but it was just totally wrong, based on the Khans' account.
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It was only after several days of raging controversy over the Khans that Clinton started posting truly eye-popping numbers, as voters were seemingly repelled by Trump's behavior.
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In time, the first man to hold that title was forgotten, along with all the other Khans who had come through Sheridan and the entire nationwide tamale craze.
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All this talk about how much lawyers cost, and how little money the Khans actually have access to, seems like it could play a vital role in the prosecution.
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Taking on Paul Ryan -- and plummeting poll numbers Compared to some of his Republican colleagues, House Speaker Paul Ryan's response to Trump's comments about the Khans was fairly tame.
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The Khans, parents of a U.S. Army captain killed in the Iraq War, didn't exactly fit the liberal mold: Khizr Khan was a political independent who supported Reagan twice.
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When asked if he thought he should have apologized to the Khan family after his comments following the Democratic National Convention, Trump said he had great respect for the Khans.
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"God bless the Khans who said what so many of us want to say," tweeted Imam Suhaib Webb, a popular Washington, DC cleric with a wide following on social media.
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He has been sucked into a row with a Muslim Gold Star family, the Khans; criticized strongly by John McCain; and branded "unfit" for high office by President Barack Obama.
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Statements from vulnerable Republican senators and House members up for re-election denounced Trump's tough language directed at the Khans, and honored them for their sacrifice for the nation's security.
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At the Democratic National Convention, the Khans, a gold star family whose son was killed in service to our nation in Iraq, spoke before the oldest political party on earth.
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The Khans lived in a small three-bedroom house on the Henry Prince Estate, which was opened in 25717 as a 2083-acre public housing facility with nearly 2208 apartments.
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The Khans' 27-year-old son was killed on June 8, 2004, after a bomb-packed taxi drove into a compound in Iraq while he was inspecting soldiers on guard duty.
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Caught up in the back-and-forth, Trump didn't take the hints being offered by his fellow Republicans who urged him to change the subject and stop talking about the Khans.
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Clinton has largely steered clear of the political drama unfolding across the aisle, focusing her attention on Trump's comments on the Khans and not the GOP civil war that has resurfaced.
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Many of Trump's critics are simultaneously floating both stories: that Trump cannot help but attack the Khans again and again, and that Trump desperately wants to distract attention from those attacks.
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I would never — I don't care what they say, you'll never hear me question anything about a Gold Star family," he said, adding that his defense of the Khans was "personal.
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Mr. Trump's advisers have impressed upon him for days that his clash with the Khans was counterproductive, urging him instead to show deference to them and train his attacks on Mrs.
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True, the current kings and khans of the Central Valley may not have the colorful nicknames of the giants who preceded them, but their appetite for growth seems just as keen.
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Bret Stephens at The Wall Street Journal has a good insight into what makes Trump's response to the Khans so egregious: What makes Mr. Trump's remarks so foul is their undisguised sadism.
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"I agree with the [Khans] and families across the country that a travel ban on all members of a religion is simply contrary to American values," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell added.
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The "three Khans" -- Salman, Aamir and Shah Rukh -- along with superstars Anil Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan, became so big, says Kapoor, that the whole economy of film changed to revolve around heroes.
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But on Wednesday he went further in an interview with WTMJ radio, as first reported by The Associated Press, calling on the GOP presidential nominee to say he's sorry for attacking Khans.
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On Saturday, Trump implied that she didn't speak because the Khans' Muslim faith didn't allow her to, and suggested that he, as a wealthy billionaire running a business, had made sacrifices, too.
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He gave the Khans something to help pay back the 40,000 rupees they still owed the Yunus family from the loan Pehlu Khan took – something to give Khan's widow and children hope.
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The Khans, who lost their son in combat in 2004, expressed solidarity with the families of the four U.S. Green Berets who were killed in an ambush in Niger earlier this month.
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It's unavoidable to point out that the Khans were invited to the DNC, in large part, to talk about their son, Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed while serving in Iraq in 227.
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The Khans' son, a U.S. Army captain, was killed by a car bomb in 2004 while guarding the gates of his base in Iraq, saving the lives of his fellow soldiers and civilians.
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"We feel we must speak out and demand you apologize to the Khans, to all Gold Star families, and to all Americans for your offensive and frankly anti-American comments," the letter said.
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Before Trump's alleged comments on Johnson surfaced, the Khans issued a statement Tuesday accusing Trump of a "lack of empathy" and of "selfish and divisive" conduct that undermined the dignity of the presidency.
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Steven SanPedro, the head of the V.F.W. in Maine, where Mr. Trump was campaigning on Thursday, said his members had been upset that Mr. Trump responded so personally to the Khans' critical comments.
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And as I have long made clear, I agree with the Khans and families across the country that a travel ban on all members of a religion is simply contrary to American values.
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Many of the Khans contributed money to fund the mosque in Gillette, and the threats against it came as a shock to them all; none had ever personally experienced such vitriol in Wyoming.
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As as I have long made clear, I agree with the Khans and families across the country that a travel ban on all members of a religion is simply contrary to American values.
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Notes • The cultural implications of the case have been measured throughout in headlines and news broadcasts, in opportunists like Glenne Headly's grandstanding lawyer and in the blowback directed at the Khans within their community.
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Trump's refusal to walk back his attacks on the Khans has dominated the headlines for days and presents a nearly existential conundrum for a party that prides itself on being a champion of the military.
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This is not to suggest that Clinton had this in mind from the start, rather that by now it's not difficult to see how Trump would react to the Khans' speech once it was confirmed.
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And the last dozen years for the Khans were darkened by their heartbreak over the death of a military son, Humayun, whose body lies in Arlington National Cemetery, his tombstone adorned with an Islamic crescent.
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Seeing the article, campaign officials for Hillary Clinton wanted to put his son in a video to be shown at the convention, and then asked the Khans if they wished to say a few words.
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During the heat of Trump's post-convention feud with the Khan family, whose son was killed in the Iraq War, Paladino tweeted links to false conspiracy theories about the Khans' alleged ties to Islamic extremists.
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And if Trump can't remain compassionate in the presence of a crying baby and its mother — or Gold Star parents like the Khans — it raises serious questions about who, if anyone, he won't mock or attack.
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It signaled that patriotism and Islam are not mutually exclusive, that sacrifice and grief have no religion, and that the similarities the Khans share with so many American families are far more meaningful than their differences.
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But Trump's attacks on the Khans may end up being more significant, in part because of their source, the parents of a fallen soldier, but also because, unlike McCain and Curiel, his adversaries aren't going anywhere.
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Mr Trump looks able to rally his embittered, defiant supporters for a huge turnout; none of those in Mechanicsburg, it was depressing to note, admitted to giving a stuff about Mr Trump's remarks to the Khans.
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On Monday, more than 20 Gold Star Families wrote to Trump condemning his treatment of the couple, saying he was "cheapening the sacrifice" of soldiers who have died and demanding that he apologize to the Khans.
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And two sources close to the Trump campaign said privately they wished Trump would apologize to the Gold Star family, even though the Khans attacked Trump from the stage at the Democratic National Convention last month.
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The son who put the Khans in the spotlight Khan's big moment came when he denounced Donald Trump's proposed immigration policies during his DNC speech and held up a small copy of the U. S. Constitution.
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Trump responded over the weekend that the family had "no right" to attack him from the convention stage in Philadelphia and took to Twitter on Monday morning to counterprogram the Khans multiple morning TV news interviews.
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Humayun Khan, the Khans' son, volunteered to serve in a U.S. military that since World War II has spent its time on conducting distant imperial adventures rather than simply defending the country, its people, and its freedoms.
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He's coming off one of the worst weeks of his campaign, but his surrogates insist Trump's going to narrow the gap by staying focused on the issues and avoiding petty fights, like his feud with the Khans.
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Khan's father — Khizr Khan — spoke at the Democratic National Convention, arguing that Trump's calls to ban Muslims from entering the US violate the Constitution, and that Trump hadn't made any sacrifices like the Khans for their country.
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Her video installation "Black Friday" was shown at the Whitney Museum last year — a hallucinatory, drone-videoed fugue about shopping malls, the 21st-century equivalent of Coleridge's "caverns measureless to man," where we are all spendthrift Kubla Khans.
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The baying of some of Mr Trump's supporters reinforces the impression: at a rally in Nevada the mother of an air-force officer was jeered after asking his running-mate, Mike Pence, to speak up for the Khans.
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A half-century after the Khans immigrated to Britain, their adopted neighborhood is fittingly at the heart of an anxiety shaping Mr. Khan's mayorship — about the status of working-class London and whether it can still be saved.
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In 2003, the brother Fatima brought to Sheridan moved to Gillette to open a hotel; these days, his branch of the Khans owns eleven hotels in the area, and his grown children have young kids of their own.
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Her speech, like the Khans', was highly personal and damning of the opposing nominee -- and both were exploitations of grief by political parties that ought, frankly, to be ashamed of themselves for using other people's suffering to get votes.
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The accompanying baying of some of Mr Trump's supporters reinforces the impression: at a rally in Nevada the mother of an air-force officer was jeered after asking his running-mate, Mike Pence, to speak up for the Khans.
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So, dearest critics, wince away As I shout-out, this holiday, The Khizr Khans, that Gold Star clan, And kind Pope Francis, holy man, And Meryl Streep and S. E. Cupp— May all find joy that fills them up!
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"From Genghis Khan to the emperors of the Yuan dynasty to the khans of the Chahar tumen, there was this single lineage," said Oyunbilig Borjigidai, a professor of Manchu and Mongolian history at Renmin University of China in Beijing.
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I remember, after the speech, listening to Democrats lament that the Clinton campaign hadn't put them higher on the schedule: The Khans were clearly the most effective anti-Trump messengers at the convention, but barely anyone would know it.
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The feud between Trump and the Khans has escalated quickly since last Thursday, when the couple took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and portrayed Trump as an un-American bigot who has never sacrificed for his country.
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Facing mounting criticism from Democrats and Republicans, he released a follow-up statement on Saturday night, describing the Khans' deceased son as a hero, but insisting that Mr. Khan had "no right" to criticize him the way he did in Philadelphia.
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A memo circulated by Mr. Trump's aides on Tuesday to his campaign surrogates urged them to express gratitude for the Khans' sacrifice, but added that Mr. Trump had a "right to defend himself," a person who received the document said.
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It was reminiscent of Trump's rough and tumble month of August when he skirted numerous controversies and refused to back down after the Khans, parents of a Muslim US soldier who died in Iraq, criticized him for his Islamophobic rhetoric and policies.
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Translating Mr Ismailov's tapestry of history and legend, Donald Rayfield captures the "joy of life" as sung by Uzbek women in their "gilded cage", as well as the terror spread down the generations by khans and commissars, those "lords of the lie".
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But instead, Trump doubled down on his position over the weekend, by not honoring the Khans, but instead questioning why Ghazala Khan did not speak as her husband gave tribute to their son on the last night of the Democratic National Convention.
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Knowing that the Khans weren't going to launch AEW without the Bucks, WWE offered the brothers a contract worth AJ Styles money to each, with a clause that they could leave without consequence during the first six months if they were unhappy.
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Though the first batch of polls that came in after the Democratic convention were good for Clinton, it was only after several days of raging controversy over the Khans that she started posting truly eye-popping numbers, as voters were seemingly repelled by Trump's behavior.
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John McCain isn't a "war hero" because he was captured, proposed a temporary Muslim ban, mocked a disabled reporter during a campaign rally, repeatedly made harsh comments about women, and attacked the Khans, a Gold Star family, for their comments at the Democratic National Convention.
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"I agree with the Khans and families across the country that a travel ban on all members of a religion is simply contrary to American values," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
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After apologizing to the Khans, he could challenge Clinton to apologize to "Benghazi Mom" Patricia Smith for lying to her about the YouTube video being the reason for her son's death and then apologize for insinuating that Smith was the one lying about their encounter.
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The Democratic gathering in Philadelphia featured not just the Khans, but a group that has come to be known as "Mothers of the Movement" — mothers of young, black Americans who have been killed in contentious circumstances, several of them during clashes with law enforcement.
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The ancient, sometimes mystical connection between maps, people and knowledge is central to Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar's "The Map of Salt and Stars," a double tale of voyage and exile that moves between contemporary war-torn Syria and the caravansaries and khans of its lost past.
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Razani joined more than 20 Gold Star families in signing an open letter calling for Trump to apologize to the Khans and said she is going to volunteer to register voters, mainly because of Trump's comments about Ghazala Khan, which she said insulted all Muslim women.
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But his rhetoric toward the press has heightened since the Republican National Convention as story after story—about his insults of the Khans, the dysfunction of his campaign, and the murky Russian dealings of his chairman, Paul Manafort—has chiseled away at his aura of invincibility.
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His memoir, which is scheduled to be published in 2017, will tell the story of the Khans' move from Pakistan to America; the loss of their son, a captain in the Army; and their unexpected role in a heated national debate about immigration, patriotism and religious diversity.
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If you listen, you'll probably find yourself amazed that you spent over four hours listening to a guy talk about the Mongol khans or World War I, but Carlin has a gift for illuminating some of the most interesting yet least talked about moments in history.
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In fact I believe his insults against the Khans is only the latest example of why I and many others believe that Trump as commander in chief would be a major national risk to America's national security and those who serve to protect and defend it.
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The Khans appeared at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in support of Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE.
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Trump's comments on Mexicans, on Muslims, his reaction to the Khans and to Megyn Kelly, his jingoism and instinctual mistrust of immigrants — all of this amounts to an anti-cosmopolitan ideology that really does run him smack into a deep-seated bias in America's urban newsrooms.
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That status, as part of what the military calls a Gold Star family, puts him in the Cabinet of a presidential candidate who verbally attacked a Gold Star family: the Khans, Muslim-American immigrants who lost a son in Iraq and had criticized Trump at the Democratic National Convention.
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Attached to the appeal were talking points lawmakers could use to try to tamp down the controversy growing since last week's appearance at the Democratic convention by the Khans, the parents of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed by a bomb in Iraq 12 years ago.
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Washington (CNN)Eric Trump defended his father Tuesday from criticism for his treatment of the family of a slain Muslim US soldier and said that he had already apologized to the Khans and Gold Star families -- despite the fact that the senior Trump has pointedly declined to apologize.
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That status, as part of what the military calls a Gold Star family, puts him in the administration of a presidential candidate who verbally attacked a Gold Star family: the Khans, Muslim-American immigrants who lost a son in Iraq and had criticized Trump at the Democratic National Convention.
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Mr. Trump also risked reopening controversies related to religious tolerance and military service: His treatment of the Khans has brought on a new wave of criticism of his proposal to ban Muslim immigration, and of his mockery of Senator John McCain's time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
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The feud with the Khan family from earlier this summer is widely regarded as a self-inflicted fiasco, but at a minimum it appears to have been a genuine accident — the Khans' speech was not scheduled for primetime, and Democrats seem to have underrated how powerful it would be.
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Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, has acknowledged the dispute with the Khans has harmed Mr. Trump, but he has pleaded with party leaders and donors to give Mr. Trump time to adjust to the general election, according to people briefed on Mr. Priebus's conversations.
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Khan's speech was widely hailed as one of the most moving of the DNC, and the Khans followed it up with an appearance on MSNBC's "Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell" on Friday in which Khan called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan to repudiate Trump's comments.
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Even as his top advisers urged him to abandon his feud with the Khans, Trump escalated it, suggesting Ghazala Khan, the mother, stood silently alongside her husband at the Democratic National Convention because she was subservient to her husband and comparing his own sacrifices to the family's loss of their son.
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It's unlikely that the recent wave of Afghan refugees can regularly afford the $14 chicken tandoori with the Khans' popular marinade—and Mirzai says that now most of his customers are native Virginians or students—but when refugees arrive in the city, the IRC calls on Mirzai to cater their first meal.
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By putting the Khans, the parents of slain U.S. soldier Humayun Khan, on Hillary Clinton's stage, the Democratic nominee's campaign managed to make its pro-immigration and anti-racism platform come alive while simultaneously giving something back to Muslims that has been stripped from us since this election cycle began -- our dignity.
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He couldn't possibly have thought that insulting the Khans, who had lost a son in combat, or dithering over whether to support the speaker of the House, Paul D. Ryan, or disingenuously hinting that the only way to stop Hillary Clinton was to shoot her, would have boosted his prospects for winning.
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And while the way in which Trump launched his counterattack against the Khans can be legitimately criticized, we should not consider it taboo to criticize people who have lost a son or daughter in military action -- especially when those parents are essentially leveraging that death to take a political stance on an unrelated issue.
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However, there were three incidences in particular that led her to make her decision: when Trump mocked a disabled reporter; when he said Judge Gonzalo Curiel could not be fair about Trump University because of his Mexican heritage; and when he attacked a Gold Star family, the Khans, after they spoke out against him at the Democratic National Convention.
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Trump's most damaging scandal may have been his two-week political fight with the Khan family, but even there, the fact that Trump attacked the Khans' religious faith was of secondary interest to questions like whether attacking a Gold Star family of immigrants would offend veterans and non-whites who might otherwise have voted for him.
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The candidate's attacks on the Khans were roundly condemned by GOP leaders, including Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
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The controversy erupted after Khizr delivered an emotional speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in which he honored his son and denounced Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. In response, Trump said that the Khans "viciously attacked" him and suggested that Ghazala – who stood silent by her husband at the convention – "wasn't allowed" to speak.
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Now, thanks in large part to the restored reputation of Genghis and the many successor Khans — a restoration achieved in no small part thanks to the literary diligence of Jack Weatherford — Mongolia has come roaring back, being currently a highly modish place to visit (tourism has tripled in the last decade), a place to revere, be amazed by and in awe of.
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But then Trump released a written statement responding to the Khans that actually seemed to prove their claim that he hadn't read the Constitution (emphasis mine): While I feel deeply for the loss of his son, Mr. Khan who has never met me, has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the Constitution, (which is false) and say many other inaccurate things.
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It's a signal that is carried loud and clear, from the GOP welcoming Greg Gianoforte with open arms to Trump's bullying behavior towards the Khans and Serge Kovaleski and the Mayor of London to 13 GOP Senators dismantling healthcare for millions in secret to Eric Trump responding to a deeply-reported article about his father skimming off his charity for children's cancer by saying that Democrats weren't even people to Jared and Ivanka's complicit, enabling silence.
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But those grounds are the same grounds that were obvious during the campaign: We watched him blow kisses to dictators then, complain about our allies then, promise a détente with Russia while exploiting the D.N.C. hacking then, double and triple down on falsehoods and bogus narratives then, cling to self-destructive feuds (the Khans, Alicia Machado) in the same way that he clings to public flattery for Putin … and after all this, he was still elected president.
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