Former Republican senator, Sen. Bob Bennett, who is battling used his last days to apologize to
Muslims for the rise of Donald
Trump as
his party’s presidential nominee, the man’s family
members told the
Daily Beast.
In
a report posted Wednesday evening, the wife and son of former Sen.
Bob Bennett said
the Utah Republican was disgusted by Mr.
Trumphaving
become the party’s presidential front-runner based on his stances
on Muslim and other immigration.
“In
the last days of his life this was an issue that was pressing in his
mind… disgust for Donald
Trump’s
xenophobia,” son Jim
Bennett told
the Daily Beast. “At the end of his life he was preoccupied with
getting things done that he had felt was left undone.”
The
article by Tim Mak begins with an anecdote, attributed to the
younger Mr.
Bennett and
Joyce Bennett, the senator’s wife, in which he “lay partially
paralyzed in his bed on the fourth floor of the George Washington
University Hospital.” In that state, days before his death and with
his speech slurred, he asked if there were any Muslims in the
hospital.
“I’d
love to go up to every single one of them to thank them for being in
this country, and apologize to them on behalf of the Republican Party
forDonald
Trump,” Bennett told
his family members.
Bennett died
May 4 of complications from a stroke and pancreatic cancer.
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