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VoteVets PAC and Priorities USA Launch New Television Ad Featuring Gold Star Mother (Video)

by Press on August 8, 2016

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Ad, titled “Michelle,” features Michelle DeFord, who lost her son in Iraq. On Trump’s treatment of the Khan family: “I would like to tell Donald Trump what it feels like; the sense of emptiness that only losing a child can bring. Those people should be honored and treated with kindness for the rest of their life. And I don’t think Donald Trump will ever understand that.”