10 things you need to know today: July 31, 2016

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Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala at the Democratic National Convention
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1. Trump responds to father of slain Muslim soldier: 'Did Hillary's script writers write' his speech?

Donald Trump on Saturday responded in an interview to a Democratic National Convention speech from the father of a Muslim U.S. soldier who died while deployed to Iraq. Trump said Khizr Khan, who questioned whether the candidate had read the Constitution, "doesn't know" how much he has "sacrificed" for America by having "tremendous success." He suggested Khan's comments were pure political manipulation by the Democratic Party, asking, "Did Hillary's script writers write" Khan's remarks? Khan in turn argued Saturday night that Trump's comments were "typical of a person without a soul." He lamented "all the snake oil [Trump] is selling, and my patriotic, decent Americans are falling for that."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.