'Maybe she wasn't allowed to talk?' Trump risks new racism row by taking swipe at MOTHER of Muslim solider killed in Iraq

 

Donald Trump has hit out at the parents of a Muslim solider killed in Iraq by suggesting the mother 'wasn't allowed to talk' and comparing their son's sacrifice to the sacrifices he made for his job.

The Republican nominee hit out at Khizr and Ghazala Khan on Friday days after Khazir delivered once of the standout speeches of the DNC while recalling the 2004 death of son Humayun.

During the address, Khizr attacked Trump for his anti-Muslim rhetoric while his wife stood at his side, before brandishing a copy of the Constitution and asking whether the billionaire 'has even read it'.

Trump has now addressed the speech, tellingABC's George Stephanopoulos: 'He was very emotional and probably looked like a nice guy to me. 

'His wife … if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say.

'She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me. But a plenty of people have written that. She was extremely quiet, and it looked like she had nothing to say.'

Challenged by Stephanopoulos over Khizr's later remark that Trump has 'sacrificed nothing' for America, the billionaire firstly blamed Clinton's speech writers for scripting the address.

Pressed on the point, he added: 'I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I've worked very, very hard. I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs.'

While Ghazala did not speak at the DNC, she did address Trump's criticisms in a later interview onMSNBC, saying she was too emotional to speak.

She told Lawrence O'Donnell: 'I was very nervous because I cannot see my son's picture, and I cannot even come in the room where his pictures are.

'That's why when I saw the picture at my back I couldn't take it, and I controlled myself at that time. So, it is very hard.'

Khizr delivered his speech with to the DNC in front of a huge screen with images of his son projected on to it.

The insinuation about Ghazala being unable to speak at the DNC is just the latest in Trump's ongoing controversy when it comes to minority groups in the U.S.

The Republican nominee announced his candidacy over a year ago with the assertion that Mexico was deliberately sending rapists, drug dealers and criminals across the border into America, while promising to deport almost 11million people believed to be here illegally.

He then went on to propose the all Muslims be forced to register on a government database, before proposing a 'complete and total shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S.' - though he has now watered that policy down to 'extreme vetting'.

Trump has also risked the ire of disabled groups by appearing to mock a disabled New York Times reporter's disability and women's groups by accusing Hillary of 'playing the woman card'.

There was also uproar from Jewish groups after Trump's Twitter account put out a message claiming Hillary is the 'most corrupt candidate ever' while using a symbol that bore similarities with the Star of David.

While Trump denied that the image was deliberate, and later defended it, his campaign team quickly took the image down and replaced the star with a circle.