“Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same - Nice!” Trump tweeted. Trump reignites Khan feud, says father ‘viciously attacked me’

With the parents of a fallen Muslim soldier making the rounds on morning news television Monday to once again attack Donald Trump, the Manhattan billionaire took to Twitter to counterprogram their digs against him.

Khizr and Ghazala Khan became the surprise stars of the Democratic National Convention last week, stealing the show on the final night with an impassioned rebuke of the Republican nominee’s candidacy. With his wife standing silently at his side, the father of Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in 2004 in Iraq, accused Trump of never having read the Constitution and offered to lend him the copy he kept in his pocket.


Monday morning, both Khan parents renewed the attack against Trump, slamming his rhetoric and attacking his often controversial bombast as “proof of his ignorance and arrogance.” As the Khan family was in the midst of at least their second TV interview of the morning, Trump lashed out at the couple on Twitter.

“Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same - Nice!” Trump tweeted as the couple spoke on CNN’s “New Day.”

Just as his surrogates have done in recent days, Trump then worked to shift attention away from the Khan family and onto the more comfortable subject of terrorism, a frequent theme of the Manhattan billionaire’s campaign.

“This story is not about Mr. Khan, who is all over the place doing interviews, but rather RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM and the U.S. Get smart!” he wrote on Twitter.