Mike Pence defends military mom's right to criticize Donald Trump

August 02, 2016 22:15

Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence defended a military mom's right to criticize Donald Trump's comments about the Muslim parents of a slain US Army veteran during a campaign stop in Nevada, and then lashed out at the media's coverage of the controversy at the

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Pence quieted a crowd that was booing a woman who asked Pence at a town hall meeting in Carson City yesterday how he could tolerate Trump's disrespect for American servicemen.

"Capt. Khan is an American hero," Pence told a crowd at a Reno hotel-casino later that evening, emphasizing that Trump shares his view. "Capt. Khan and his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by all the people of the United States."

The Republican nominee implied last week that Ghazala Khan, mother of Capt. Humayun Khan, stood silently alongside her husband at the Democratic National Convention because, as a Muslim, she was restricted her from speaking.

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