memeorandum: McConnell offers rebuke on Khan comments (Seung Min Kim/Politico)

5:20 PM ET, July 31, 2016

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Trump criticized my silence. He knows nothing about true sacrifice. — Ghazala Khan's son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq in 2004. — CHARLOTTESVILLE — Donald Trump has asked why I did not speak at the Democratic convention. He said he would like to hear from me.

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Seung Min Kim / Politico:

McConnell offers rebuke on Khan comments — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday waded into the controversy surrounding Donald Trump and his dismissive comments toward a Muslim-American couple whose son was killed during the Iraq War. — Without mentioning the GOP nominee's name …

Donald J Trump for President:

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT — Trump Campaign Releases Full Transcript of Khizr Khan Answer Ahead of Mr. Trump's ABC This Week Sunday Interview With George Stephanopoulos; — Trump Calls Captain Humayun Khan A “Hero,” Urges Vigilance In Defeating Radical Islamic Terrorism …

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German Lopez / Vox:

Donald Trump proves he hasn't read the Constitution in statement claiming he has — In their searing speech against Donald Trump this week, the parents of deceased US Army Captain Humayun Khan suggested that Trump has not read the US Constitution — citing as exhibit one Trump's plan …

New York Times:

Donald Trump's Confrontation With Muslim Soldier's Parents Emerges as Unexpected Flash Point — Donald J. Trump reeled on Sunday amid a sustained campaign of criticism by the parents of a Muslim American soldier killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq and a rising outcry within his own party …

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Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
Khizr Khan responds to the latest from Trump: ‘Typical of a person without a soul’

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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Khizr Khan: Trump has a ‘black soul’

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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Hillary Called Benghazi Mom a Liar, But Media Freak Out over Trump on Muslim Parents

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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Muslim Dad Khizr Khan Tells CNN Terror ‘Has Nothing to Do with Islam’

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ABC News:
Muslim Family of Fallen Army Captain Responds to Trump: ‘Shame on Him’

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Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Mother of soldier killed in Iraq: I was too ‘in pain’ to speak at convention

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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Trump to Khizr Khan: 'I've made a lot of sacrifices'

Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:

Trump Appears To Be Ignorant Of A Major International Conflict — Two years ago, Russia's incursions into Ukraine — including the controversial annexation of Crimea — was front page news on numerous occasions. Roughly 10,000 lives have been lost as a result of the ongoing violence.

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ABC News:

‘This Week’ Transcript: Donald Trump, Vice President Joe Biden, and Ret. Gen. John Allen — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ ON July 31, 2016 and it will be updated. — GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Let's talk about the Democratic Convention. So you won the rating war in the last night.

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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Ret. Gen. John Allen Says Donald Trump Could Cause ‘Civil Military Crisis’

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Isabel Vincent / New York Post:

Melania Trump like you've never seen her before — Donald Trump thinks his wife will be a model first lady — and here's the proof. — Decades before she was sporting designer dresses on the stage of the Republican National Convention as Mrs. Trump, Melania Knauss posed nude in a photo spread …

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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:

Poll: Clinton Rides Convention Bump Past Trump — Hillary Clinton is once again leading Donald Trump in the presidential race after her party's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. — The former secretary of State leads the brash businessman, 43 percent to 40 percent …

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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:

If You Are Not Nervous About The Upcoming Election... If you are not nervous about the impending Presidential election I envy and applaud you. — But for the rest of us (the Trembling Majority?), David Sanger of the Times presents a new concern that should easily crack anyone's Top 100 list of potential electoral disasters.

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David E. Sanger / New York Times: U.S. Wrestles With How to Fight Back Against Cyberattacks

Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:

Clinton's claim that the FBI director said her email answers were ‘truthful’ — “Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails.”

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Matea Gold / Washington Post:

Charles Koch won't back Trump but calls the idea that he would support Clinton ‘blood libel’ — COLORADO SPRINGS — Charles Koch on Sunday forcefully shot down the possibility that he would support Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in this year's White House race, calling such an idea “blood libel.”

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Denver Post:

Donald Trump rescued from stuck elevator by Colorado Springs firefighters. Then he called out the fire marshal. — Donald Trump was stuck in an elevator with 10 other people for 30 minutes, the fire department said — The fire marshal that Donald Trump criticized for capping attendance …

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