War Of Words Escalates Between Trump, Parents Of Muslim American Hero
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- The Clinton-Kaine bus stop in Pittsburgh came as Donald Trump escalated his dispute with Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen Muslim American hero who died saving the lives of his Army comrades in Iraq.
On Sunday morning, Trump tweeted, "I was viciously attacked by Mr. Khan."
At the Democratic Convention, Khan did criticize Trump for his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the country when American Muslims have lost children fighting for America.
"You have sacrificed nothing...and no one," Khan told a national audience at the convention.
"Who wrote that? Did Hillary's scriptwriters write that?" retorted Trump in an ABC interview.
In an exclusive interview with KDKA political editor Jon Delano, Clinton acknowledged knowing about the Khans before the convention but claimed no authorship.
"I had known about this story, had heard about it, and had known about it some months back," said Clinton.
Trump also suggested Khan's wife, Ghazala, was silenced.
"She had nothing to say," noted Trump on ABC. "Maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me, but plenty of people have written that."
But Ghazala Khan said she was too overcome by emotion to speak.
"My religion or my family or my culture never stopped me saying whatever I want to say," Mrs. Khan said on CNN.
The Democrats pounced on Trump's comments, as more evidence, they say, that he's unfit to be commander-in-chief.
"Somebody who attacks everybody has something missing," Clinton told a rally of supporters.
Clinton told KDKA-TV it was wrong to attack people like the Khans.
"Those people who have lost loved ones in service to our country are the ones who are the most moving to me because it's not idle talk. It's deeply rooted in both their loss and their pride," said Clinton.
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Late Monday, some Gold Star families called on Trump to apologize to the Khans.
But Trump instead tweeted again that he was viciously attacked and said the story is really about radical Islamic terrorism.
