Donald Trump – hailing hero American Muslim Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004 – repeated his assertion Sunday night he was against the conflict.
"First of all, Capt. Khan is an American hero, and if I were president at that time, he would be alive today – because unlike her, who voted for the war without knowing what she was doing, I would not have had our people in Iraq," Trump asserted during the second presidential debate, referring to the fallen soldier whose Gold Star parents, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Trump had attacked for their criticism during the Democratic National Convention.
"Iraq was a disaster," Trump continued. "He would have been alive today. The Muslim ban is something that in some form has morphed into an extreme vetting from certain areas of the world."
Trump had said during a 2002 interview on Howard Stern's radio show he was in favor of the Iraq War. Trump claims in other interviews closer to the start of the war, he said he was against it.