Khizr Khan responds to the latest from Trump: ‘Typical of a person without a soul’

By Stephanie McCrummen July 31 at 12:58 AM

Two days after delivering one of the most memorable speeches of the 2016 campaign season — a moment one commentator described as the ‘fulcrum’ of the election — Khizr Khan was checking into a D.C. hotel, preparing for television appearances Sunday morning and still trying to come to grips with the sudden spotlight.

“I was in line, and a group of people gathered behind me and one of them said, ‘Sir, can we shake your hand?’” Khan said in a phone interview from his hotel room in Washington late Saturday night.

Khan was still overwhelmed by the response to his speech. He had paid tribute to his son Humayun Khan, a 27-year-old Army captain killed in Iraq in 2004, and had asked Donald Trump whether he had ever read the U.S. Constitution or visited Arlington National Cemetery. All of it had amounted to the most direct and personal challenge so far to the GOP presidential nominee’s rhetoric concerning Muslim immigrants in America.

Khan said it is the massive response to his speech, not the speech itself, that is “causing the trouble to Trump.”

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