Why Khizr Khan’s DNC speech has been so devastating for Donald Trump
Talk is cheap and it’s never cheaper than during election season. Not even the most sacred words escape devaluation. But in one brief speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention last week, the word “sacrifice” could not possibly have been worth more.
With Ghazala at his side, Khizr Khan, the bereaved father of fallen Army Captain Humayun Khan—who died serving in Iraq in 2004—identified his family as patriotic Muslim Americans. Addressing Donald Trump directly, Khan said that his son had sacrificed his life for the country that Trump proposes to keep Muslims out of.
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