US military veterans protest against Trump at Congress
A group of US military veterans have visited Congress to denounce Donald Trump and urge Republican lawmakers to withdraw their endorsement of the Republican presidential nominee.
The veterans delivered petitions Thursday to the office of Senator John McCain a Vietnam War veteran and former prisoner of war who was the Republican presidential nominee in 2008.
McCain joined in the criticism of Trump this week, but failed to withdraw his endorsement of him.
The veterans said their petition had more than 100,000 names in less than a day, including veterans, their families and ordinary voters. They accused Trump of having divisive policies and slammed his “bigotry” and racist policies.
"Donald Trump's hate speech, bigotry and unabashed incitement to violence against minorities, to include the Muslim community, desecrate the very values of liberty and equality which we as American military veterans swore an oath to protect," said Muslim Navy veteran Nate Terani.
“Donald Trump and his surrogates have demonstrated that their bigotry and hate speech know no bounds," Terani said. “Donald Trump is a racist and bigot and wholly unfit for this position.”
The protest comes in the wake of Trump’s recent attack on Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of an American Muslim soldier killed in Iraq in 2004, embroiling Trump in another controversy.
Khizr Khan, the father of Humayun Khan, delivered a speech critical of Trump at the Democratic National Convention last week.
Meanwhile, a group of protesters supporting Khan interrupted a Trump rally in the city of Portland by waving copies of the US Constitution.
During his speech at the convention, Khan had asked Trump whether he had read the US Constitution.
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