Eric Trump, the second son of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, came out to defend statements made by his father about the family of a U.S. army captain killed in Iraq, saying that the comments had been blown out of proportion.
On “CBS This Morning,” the younger Trump also defended his father’s plan to take on radical Islamic terrorism.
“I mean, you see anybody who dies for their nation, dies for the three of us at this table, made the ultimate sacrifice, but you know for my father, in terms of the Kahn family, it’s not about a soldier—who’s an amazing guy. My father even said that during the interview, sounds like he’s a really amazing guy,” Eric Trump said.
Eric Trump focused on his father’s plan to take on radical terror in the wake of the Orlando and San Bernardino terror attacks, as well as international incidents, including the Nice truck attack and the killing of a priest at a church in Normandy, France.
Khizr Khan, the father of Army captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004, slammed Donald Trump in an emotional speech during the Democratic National Convention. Khan said Donald Trump had “sacrificed nothing and no one” and also questioned whether Donald Trump had ever read the constitution.
In the interview on CBS This Morning, Eric Trump said his father had apologized to the family already.
“My father’s simple message, it’s not an anti-Muslim message, it’s an anti-terror message,” Eric Trump told CBS. “You know, we have ISIS and they’re running in rampant around the world and we have to do something about it.”
