Donald Trump hit back Saturday at accusations from the father of a slain Muslim soldier that the billionaire has “sacrificed nothing” for his country, saying he had employed thousands of people.
Khizr Khan — whose son died in Iraq — accused the Republican presidential nominee of vilifying American Muslims in a steely rebuke that electrified the Democratic convention on Thursday.
“Go look at the graves of brave patriots who died defending the United States of America,” Khan said to Trump.
“You will see all faiths, genders and ethnicities. You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”
Trump brushed off Khan’s words in an interview with ABC News, insisting he had made “a lot of sacrifices.”
“I work very, very hard. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I’ve had tremendous success. I think I’ve done a lot.”
The brash billionaire has alienated many Americans with insults against immigrants, Muslims and women during his nomination campaign.
Among his more controversial policy positions has been his call to ban Muslims from entering the United States and suggestions he would back profiling them.
Trump also questioned whether his rival, Hillary Clinton, had been behind Khan’s address, which the father said he wrote with his wife Ghazala.
“Who wrote that? Did Hillary’s script writers write it?” Trump said in the interview, which is set to air in full on Sunday.
“If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say,” Trump said, adding: “maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.”
– ‘A dark heart’ -Reacting to Trump’s comments, Ghazala Kahn told ABC News that she chose not to speak at the DNC because of her overwhelming grief.
“Sacrifice — I don’t think he knows the meaning of sacrifice, the meaning of the word,” the late army captain’s mother said. “Because when I was standing there, all America felt my pain. Without saying a single word. Everybody felt that pain.”
Her husband said he had invited her to speak, but she declined knowing that she’d become too emotional.
Khizr Khan said that running for president does not entitle Trump “to disrespect” the relatives of soldiers killed in combat.
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