The Democratic National Convention gave John Oliver plenty of fodder, from Tim Kaine (aka The Human Sweater Vest, aka Portrait of the Vice President That Came With the Frame) and his bad Donald Trump impression to Vice President Joe Biden yelling like a SoulCycle instructor, but he saved his ire for something that happened after it was all over.
During the convention, Khizr Khan, whose son, Army Captain Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq in 2004, asked Trump if he had ever read the Constitution, then pulled out his own copy from his jacket. "That is an American founding document being inspirationally used as a middle finger," Oliver said. "I did not know that was technically possible." Trump has since responded several times, asking why Khan's wife didn't say anything while onstage (she told MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell she can't look at photos of her son without crying, and was standing directly in front of a large picture of him), and questioned if Khan actually wrote his speech or if it came from Hillary Clinton's speechwriters.
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