“I found it interesting Mr. Khan, that you and your wife, an American Gold Star family, would take the stage to support a sitting president and one desiring to be president, who had abandoned Americans in a combat zone and lied about it.”

— Allen West (politician)

2010s, Open letter to Khizr M. Khan (31 July 2016)

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American politician; retired United States Army officer 1961

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“I found it interesting Mr. Khan, that you and your wife, an American Gold Star family, would take the stage to support a sitting president and one desiring to be president, who had abandoned Americans in a combat zone and lied about it.”

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