Hillary Clinton attacked Donald Trump Sunday for his comments about two Muslim parents who lost their son in Iraq and spoke at the recent Democratic convention, according to a report.
Signalling Democrats intend to use Trump remarks as a major wedge issue, Clinton said that Trump responded to the appearance of Khizr and Ghazala Khan with insults and degrading comments about Muslims. Trump shows “a total misunderstanding of what made our country great — religious freedom, religious liberty. It’s enshrined in our Constitution, as Mr. Khan knows, because he’s actually read it,” she said, according to Politico.
The last part was a reference to Khizr Khan’s speech, wherein he asked if Donald Trump had even read the Constitution and said that Trump has “sacrificed nothing and no one.”
Trump responded to the speech by asking what his wife, Ghazala, had to say. He then speculated that she was silenced because she was a Muslim woman.
Ghazala Khan wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post that without saying a thing, “All the world, all America, felt my pain.”
Clinton spoke before about 200 churchgoers at an African-American church in Cleveland.
“I don’t begrudge anyone of any other faith, or no faith at all. But I do tremble before those who would scapegoat other Americans, who would insult people because of their religion, their ethnicity, their disability. That’s just not how I was raised,” she said, according to Politico.
