Oct 22, 2017

Khizr Khan: The Niger soldiers' deaths became a "political football"

Gold Star father Khizr Khan, who spoke at the Democrat National Convention last summer, said on CBS' "Face The Nation" Sunday morning that the four soldiers killed in Niger, deserved the "utmost dignity, respect, and privacy," but instead became "a political football."

He also criticized Chief of Staff John Kelly, a retired general and himself a Gold Star father, for standing by President Trump after Charlottesville, and for "doing exactly same thing what he was complaining about" in terms of failing to provide adequate respect to Gold Star families.

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