Posted on 07/31/2016 7:13:27 AM PDT by Mariner
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) -- Donald Trump sparked bipartisan backlash after the Republican attacked the bereaved parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who spoke at the Democratic convention last week.
Critics from both parties on Saturday questioned whether Trump had the empathy and understanding to be president, particularly after he questioned why mourning mother Ghazala Khan stayed silent during her husband's Thursday night address.
"He was kind of trying to turn that into some kind of ridicule," Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said after a campaign event in Pittsburgh. "It just demonstrates again kind of a temperamental unfitness. If you don't have any more sense of empathy than that, then I'm not sure you can learn it."
Former President Bill Clinton, who joined his wife and Kaine at the event, agreed: "I cannot conceive how you can say that about a Gold Star mother."
Lawyer Khizr Khan gave a moving tribute to their son, Humayun, who received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart after he was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004. During the speech, Khan's wife, Ghazala, stood quietly by his side.
"If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me," Trump said, in an interview with ABC's "This Week."
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The only story that is given traction is that Islam subjugates women, and hypocritical Democrats are silent on the matter.
Buck up and focus. Trump didn't do anything wrong or anything to undermine his chances.
For those who have made comments critical of Trump for his remark re. the muslim (shari’a?) lawyer whose son was killed by ANOTHER MUSLIM while serving in the muslim created centuries long hell hole in the Middle East, I – and many other posters – have asked one question: Why didn’t this fellow aim his comments at the fellow muslims now slaughtering other muslims, Christians and Jews all over the world – and, if you’ve been asleep or a demoncrat (but I repeat myself) – now HERE AMONG US?
Oh wait. He was at the demoncrat convention and was under orders to dump on Trump!
never mind.
(If this confuses you, search the definition of “Taqiyya”.)
And as for his pulling out his little Constitution, let me urge all you who see this to visit the site at the link below to fully grasp the contents of ANOTHER book (a BIG ONE) the Quran!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBDDC4wVxk
Let me fix the headline
Bipartisan “media” backlash for Trump, after questioning Khan family
There.
Khan’s son died 12 YEARS AGO. It didn’t happen yesterday. This was a total setup. The MSM and Khan are acting as if their son’s death happened yesterday. It didn’t. The Clinton campaign found this useful idiot to fulfill their political intent of smearing Trump. The nerve of this guy Khan to lecture Trump on the Constitution. What gall.
Will the Liberals give such royal credence to the families of fallen Benghazi Marines?
Khaaaaan! The new myth of the patriotic Muslim.
It was a gaffe, an unnecessary, stupid mistake. I swear, Trump is determined to torpedo his own campaign.
Hillary Clinton is the most flawed, weak, and corrupt candidate to run for the presidency in history, and Trump seems determined to give the election to her.
I wish he would get off personal attacks on ANYONE and hammer her on the issues.
he needs to couter punch, though on some things, like when Hillary tries to tie him to Putin, talk about Chingate and much money China donated to Clinton Gore and then talk about the Clinton foundation, her arms sales to Qatar, the Russia Uranium deal, and then talk about their connections to mobsters like Loutchansky...with this Khan thig, just thank them for their sacrifice and point out that rather than sacrificing, Hillary has become ridiculously wealthy at everybody else’s expense by selling influence.
they triggered him and he walked right into it. That’s on him.
I love the smell of Democrat desperation in the morning. LOL!
The Khans brought it ALL up; or at least Mr. Khan did.
Ah, Hillree, her song is “People, People using people are
the UGLIEST people in the world!” - Kaine seems oblivious
to the fact he is looking like Hillary’s lapdog already.
I am not the least bit interested in a Code Pink Muslim. Trump did not send this son into battle. Our Constitution says God gives unalienable rights not Allah.
Trump had nothing to do with their son’s death
Unlike Hillary at Bengazi
They dragged out the father and mother to question Trumps policy on Muslim immigration
So if the father and mother are in favor of allowing all the new muslims in after their son died fighting them then they are the ones that are screwed up
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