Why McMullin didn’t think it was enough just to trash Trump

Published August 9, 2016 12:57am ET



Evan McMullin announced his campaign as an independent presidential candidate Monday morning. He wasted little time before delivering the harshest attacks Republican nominee Donald Trump has been hit with from a rival.

After resigning from his post in the House Republican Conference and stealing the Monday news cycle, McMullin went on ABC’s World News, where he escalated his criticism of Trump to a new level, saying the billionaire businessman’s comments about Khizr Khan’s son indicates “he is inhuman.”

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