Muslim DNC speaker challenges GOP leaders to call Trump out

Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen Muslim soldier who confronted Donald Trump in a moving speech at the Democratic National Convention earlier this week, pleaded with GOP leaders to call out their party’s presidential candidate.

{mosads}Giving an interview alongside his wife Ghazala Khan on MSNBC’s “Last Word,” Khan praised Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as patriots, decent human beings and great leaders.

“But isn’t this time to repudiate Trump?” Khan said. “What he has said, what he has threatened to do. This is moral imperative for both leaders to say to him, ‘Enough. You are about to sink the ship of the patriot Republicans.’”

Khan added that other countries look to the U.S. democracy as an example to learn from and that people around the world are concerned about Trump. 

Khan captivated the audience at the Democratic convention earlier this week when he blasted Trump for his rhetoric towards Muslims, telling the Republican candidate, “You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”

Trump himself appeared unimpressed by Khan’s speech in remarks he made to The New York Times.

“I’d like to hear his wife say something,” Trump said.

On Friday, Khan warned McConnell and Ryan that if Trump governs in the manner that he has campaigned, the country will be plunged into an unprecedented constitutional crisis.

“There is so much at stake and I appeal to both of these leaders, there comes a time in the history of a nation where a ethical, moral stand has to be taken regardless of the political cost,” he said. “The only reason they’re not repudiating his behavior, his threat to our democracy, our decency, our foundation is just because of political consequences.”