Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., shook his head Wednesday when asked to comment on Donald Trump’s back-and-forth fight with a Muslim Gold Star family, and asked if nothing was sacred in politics.
“It is deeply, deeply upsetting,” Kaine, who was tapped last month to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate, said Wednesday in an interview with WXII-TV in North Carolina.
Khizr Khan, an American Muslim whose son, Army Captain Humayun Khan, died in 2004 while serving in Iraq, rebuked the GOP nominee’s immigration platform during a speech delivered last week at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
With his wife by his side, Khan challenged Trump to read the United States Constitution.
The Republican presidential candidate and his supporters responded to the speech with a series of attacks, including demands that the Gold Star family apologize, and suggestions that Khizr Khan may have ties to Islamic jihad.
For Kaine, the entire episode has been upsetting.
Humayun Khan was a University of Virginia ROTC student who “decided to volunteer to serve his country,” the senator said in his interview Wednesday.
The Khans are a Virginia couple.
“When somebody who wants to be commander in chief will go after and kind of ridicule or trash parents who lost a child, who served valiantly and saved others’ lives — I mean, it’s like, is nothing sacred?” Kaine asked.
“In Virginia, this really spins people’s heads around — very, very upsetting to us,” he added.
