“I don’t regret anything,” the Republican presidential nominee told WJLA, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C., yesterday. “I said nice things about the son, and I feel that very strongly, but of course I was hit very hard from the stage, and you know, it’s just one of those things. But no, I don’t regret anything.”
Not even suggesting that Ghazala Khan, who said she did not speak at the Democratic National Convention last week because she did not think she could maintain her composure while discussing her dead son, had been muzzled by a domineering Muslim husband? No, not even that.
The New York Times reports that an internal Trump campaign memo instructs his proxies to “express gratitude for the Khans’ sacrifice” but adds that Trump has a “right to defend himself.” No one denies that Trump has a right to respond to criticism, just as other people have a right to criticize that response. Trump, who thinks Khizr Khan “has no right” to question his respect for the Constitution, seems genuinely baffled by the idea that freedom of speech is a two-way street.
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