August 01, 2016, 11:48 am
Former Trump aide: Khan's son would be alive if Trump were president
By Jesse Byrnes
Donald Trump's former campaign manager on Monday said that Khizr Khan's son, Capt. Humayun Khan, would still be alive today if Trump had been president.
Corey Lewandowski noted Trump's long-standing opposition to the War in Iraq, where Humayun Khan was killed by a suicide bomber in 2004.
"If Donald Trump were the president, Capt. Khan would have still be alive today because we never would have entered the Iraq War in the first place, we've been very clear about that," Lewandowski said on CNN's "New Day."
Trump has repeatedly railed against the Iraq War, conducted under George W. Bush, during his presidential bid. Last week he tweeted of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, "Hillary voted for the Iraq war, not me!"
Still, Trump endorsed invading Iraq during a Sept. 11, 2002, radio interview, telling Howard Stern, "Yeah, I guess so." Soon after the war started in 2003, Trump remarked on the "tremendous cost" of the war and by 2004 his opposition was "well documented," according to FactCheck.org.
For several days, Trump and his political allies have scrambled to respond to fallout over the candidate's public feud with the parents of the slain soldier, who was Muslim.
Khizr Khan denounced Trump's views at last week's Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/289987-lewandowski-claims-khan-would-be-alive-if-trump-were-president
