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Military veterans demand Republicans unendorse Trump and his 'ignorance'
Source: The Guardian
Military veterans demand Republicans unendorse Trump and his 'ignorance'
Group of veterans visit Capitol Hill to present petition to Senator
John McCain urging him and other Republican leaders to disavow
presidential nominee
David Smith in Washington and Tom Dart in Houston
Thursday 4 August 2016 20.22 BST
The backlash against Donald Trump escalated on Thursday as angry US military veterans arrived on Capitol Hill urging Republican leaders to withdraw their support for the party’s nominee.
The protest came after a torrid week for the maverick candidate, whose criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of an American Muslim soldier killed in Iraq in 2004, triggered a Republican revolt.
The veterans presented a petition on Thursday to the office of Senator John McCain, , a Vietnam war veteran and former prisoner of war who was the Republican presidential nominee in 2008. McCain joined the condemnation of Trump this week, but stopped short of withdrawing his endorsement of him.
“Donald Trump and his surrogates have demonstrated that their bigotry and hate speech know no bounds,” Nate Terani, the first Muslim American to serve in the US Navy Presidential Honor Guard, told reporters. “Donald Trump is a racist and bigot and wholly unfit for this position.”
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Group of veterans visit Capitol Hill to present petition to Senator
John McCain urging him and other Republican leaders to disavow
presidential nominee
David Smith in Washington and Tom Dart in Houston
Thursday 4 August 2016 20.22 BST
The backlash against Donald Trump escalated on Thursday as angry US military veterans arrived on Capitol Hill urging Republican leaders to withdraw their support for the party’s nominee.
The protest came after a torrid week for the maverick candidate, whose criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of an American Muslim soldier killed in Iraq in 2004, triggered a Republican revolt.
The veterans presented a petition on Thursday to the office of Senator John McCain, , a Vietnam war veteran and former prisoner of war who was the Republican presidential nominee in 2008. McCain joined the condemnation of Trump this week, but stopped short of withdrawing his endorsement of him.
“Donald Trump and his surrogates have demonstrated that their bigotry and hate speech know no bounds,” Nate Terani, the first Muslim American to serve in the US Navy Presidential Honor Guard, told reporters. “Donald Trump is a racist and bigot and wholly unfit for this position.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/04/us-military-veterans-donald-trump-petition-john-mccain
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