Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced a guest list for the first presidential debate that includes a Gold Star mother and a Benghazi veteran.
NBC reporter Hallie Jackson posted the list in a tweet:
Karen Vaughn, a Gold Star mother, organized a meeting between Gold Star families and Trump after his war of words against Khzir Khan, according to CNN Politics.
Mark Geist survived the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya and has endorsed Trump.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is a Trump adviser who accompanied the Republican nominee to his first intelligence briefing.
Gen. Keith Kellogg is a former Army lieutenant general and a foreign policy adviser for Trump. Bruce LeVell is the executive director of the National Diversity Coalition for Trump, according to Talking Points Memo.
ABC News reported that Trump's Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton has invited entrepreneur Mark Cuban; a woman with cerebral palsy, a domestic abuse survivor, a 9/11 survivor, and a woman who became a pen pal with Clinton when she was first lady.
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