Trump: Can’t I respond to an attack?

Published July 31, 2016 2:18pm ET



Donald Trump went on the offensive Sunday in response to criticism of his comments about a Muslim Democratic convention speaker.

“I was viciously attacked by Mr. Khan at the Democratic Convention,” he tweeted on Sunday. Trump was referring to Khizr Khan, a Muslim lawyer whose son was in the Army and died in Iraq in 2004. Khan in his speech asked Trump if he had even read the Constitution and said that Trump has “sacrificed nothing and no one.”

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