Trump responds to father of slain Muslim soldier: 'Did Hillary's script writers write' his speech?

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Donald Trump on Saturday responded in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos to a Democratic National Convention speech from the father of a Muslim U.S. soldier who died while deployed to Iraq.

Trump told Stephanopoulos that Khizr Khan, whose viral remarks questioned whether the candidate had read the Constitution and offered to lend him a copy, "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 speech?

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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.