Khizr Khan, a longtime foil of President Trump, is making an official public appearance on the 2020 campaign trail on behalf of presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Khan, 70, will host a virtual event for Military Families for Biden on Thursday night after endorsing the two-term vice president and 36-year Delaware senator in November.
“I’m supporting Joe Biden for President because of the America he stands for and the one he will fight for — the country that my son, Humayun Khan, believed in and fought for so bravely,” Khan wrote in a statement at the time.
“President Donald Trump, on the other hand, has consistently chosen self over country, seeking the aid of totalitarian governments to sway elections and undermine our rule of law to serve his self-interest,” Khan said.
Khan and Trump, 73, first clashed before the 2016 election, when Khan and his wife Ghazala, 69, gave an emotional, fiery address at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that summer. The Pakistani immigrants lost their son, Humayun, then a 27-year-old U.S. Army captain, when a car bomb went off outside his Iraqi base in 2004. He was posthumously awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
At the convention, Khizr Khan ripped Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric and blasted the then-reality TV star and real estate mogul for apparently never reading the Constitution.
Trump responded just as sharply, asking why Ghazala Khan had “not been allowed to have anything to say.”
“I was viciously attacked by Mr. Khan at the Democratic Convention. Am I not allowed to respond? Hillary voted for the Iraq war, not me!” he tweeted after a backlash over his comments.
Last November, the Gold Star parents also attended a top-dollar fundraiser for Biden hosted by former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
