French president says Trump’s attacks on dead soldier’s family ‘hurtful and humiliating.’
French President François Hollande on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump, saying his attacks on a slain soldier’s parents were sickening.
“His excesses make you want to retch, even in the United States, especially when — as was Donald Trump’s case — he speaks ill of a soldier, of the memory of a soldier,” Hollande told journalists in Paris, AFP reported.
He was referring to Trump’s attacks on Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Muslim parents of a decorated American soldier killed in Iraq.
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Hollande criticized Trump’s “hurtful and humiliating comments,” saying that in November’s U.S. election “democracy is also at stake, as we see more and more people tempted by authoritarianism.”
“Should the American people choose Trump, there will be consequences because a U.S. election is a global election,” he said.
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Oh, pshaw. Not like they're a nuclear member of NATO, on the UN Security Council, or our oldest ally or anything. https://t.co/2bmN3yzbGQ
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 2, 2016
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