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Quote of the Day

February 3, 2017 · 4:03 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“I will walk barefoot to any congressional district you want to send me to.”

— Khizr Khan, quoted by the Washington Post, in a speech to House Democrats.

2018 Campaign Khizr Khan

Captain Khan

October 21, 2016 · 12:18 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Hillary Clinton just released an incredibly powerful ad featuring Khizr Khan, the father of slain U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan.

2016 Campaign Hillary Clinton, Khizr Khan

Khan Hits Back at Trump

August 1, 2016 · 8:24 am ET · Leave a Comment

Khizr Khan lashed out at Donald Trump again on the Today Show after the GOP presidential nominee repeatedly questioned his motives for speaking at the Democratic convention.

Said Khan: “This candidate amazes me. His ignorance — he can get up and malign the entire nation, the religions, the communities, the minorities, the judges and yet a private citizen in this political process… I cannot say what I feel? That proves the point, he has not read the Constitution of this country. Had he read that, his behavior would be different.”

Trump kept the story alive on Twitter: “Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same – Nice!”

2016 Campaign Khizr Khan

Khizr Khan Had No Written Speech

July 29, 2016 · 10:27 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Politico: “That was the beginning of a 7-minute speech that became an instant sensation—eloquent, emotional and notably original, coming as it did at the end of four days of highly processed political cliche. Khan, a 66-year-old immigration lawyer from Charlottesville, told the story of his son’s death in combat in Iraq, but he turned that elegy into a viral rebuke of Donald Trump: ‘You have sacrificed nothing!'”

“And Khan delivered his broadside without using the teleprompter. There was nothing to put on it, because he had written nothing down.”

2016 Campaign Khizr Khan

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