Khizr and Ghazala Khan Respond to Donald Trump
"We have a candidate without a moral compass, without empathy for its citizens."
Since the early days of Donald Trump‘s candidacy, politicians and journalists have channelled attorney Joseph Welch‘s famous question delivered to chief red scaremonger Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. “Have you no sense of decency?” Welch asked McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings after the Senator alluded, as a diversionary tactic, that one of of Welch’s associates had ties to the Communist party. They were the magic words that broke McCarthy’s opressive spell.
Rep. Kay Granger, a Texas Republican, referenced Welch’s words in July 2015 in response to Trump saying John McCain, a POW during the Vietnam War, was “not a war hero” and that Trump “like[d] people who weren’t captured.”
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