Muslim women call out Donald Trump with #CanYouHearUsNow
Muslim women are showing Donald Trump just how little he knows about them.
The Republican presidential candidate has been in a back-and-forth battle with the family of a slain muslim Army captain since his father, Khizr Khan, took the stage at last week's Democratic National Convention with his wife, Ghazala, at his side, and questioned whether Trump had read the U.S. Constitution.
One of Trump's first responses to Khan's speech in Philadelphia was to question why Ghazala hadn't spoken.
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"If you look at his wife, she was standing there," Trump said in a Saturday interview with ABC. "She had nothing to say. She probably — maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me."
Ghazala Khan responded with an op-ed in The Washington Post, and Muslim women are now using #CanYouHearUsNow to counter Trump's attempt to foment a stereotype.
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Trump has tried to play the victim in this latest debacle, tweeting that Khan "viciously attacked" him.
But GOP leaders have issued statements supporting the Khans. Republican Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam War veteran from Arizona, even issued a statement on Monday in which he said he hopes "Americans understand that the remarks do not represent the views of our Republican Party, its officers, or candidates."
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