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Bipartisan coalition of veterans Gold Star family members tells Trump his comments were unacceptable
Washington Post ^ | August 1, 2016 | Sean Sullivan

Posted on 08/01/2016 3:55:21 PM PDT by Pinkbell

A bipartisan coalition of 40 combat veterans, family members of military personnel killed in the line of duty and a veteran serving in Congress sent a letter to Donald Trump on Monday calling his criticism of the Muslim American parents of an Army soldier who was killed in Iraq "unacceptable" and an affront to each of them.

The letter, which was shared with The Washington Post and says it is not a partisan attack, was sent to Trump Monday via United States Postal Servicee, FedEx and Uber's courier service. It calls for Trump to apologize.

Organizers said they plan to add many more signatories by opening it up online for broader national participation. The list of signatories includes highly decorated combat veterans including Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer, who was a supporter of Ted Cruz's presidential campaign. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who served in Iraq as a Marine Corps infantry officer, is also on the list.

"To the military and veterans community, nothing is more sacred or honored than our Gold Star parents," says the letter, referring to parents whose children were killed in the line of duty. "Their personal sacrifice, the loss of a child, is the unimaginable. This week, when you chose to disparage the family of an American soldier who gave his life in combat, you chose to disparage all of us.

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"I think this situation speaks quite well to Trump's blatant lack of fitness for office," said James Waters, a former George W. Bush administration White House aide and Navy SEAL. Waters said he is a Republican who is not voting for Trump.

Zach Iscol, a Marine combat veteran who served in Iraq and is a Democrat, said of Trump: "He bullies a lot of people. You do not bully a Gold Star family."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: goldstarfamilies; kahn; trump; vets
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Thank you, I needed that!


81 posted on 08/01/2016 4:51:59 PM PDT by World'sGoneInsane
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To: DesertRhino
"Says the man taking about shaking his bum at people..."

Finally someone has asked about that tag line. It goes back to a story in a magazine more than forty years ago. It involved a London fashion show at which the actor Richard Burton was a guest judge. According to the story, just before the show began, the manager told the models, "Above all, shake your bum at Burton." I just thought it was an amusing example of the banality of 1960s culture. I shouldn't have expected you to understand it.
82 posted on 08/01/2016 4:53:56 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Steve_Seattle; WildHighlander57; Conservative Gato; Psalm 144; onyx; Jane Long; PA Engineer; ...
"If you hate Trump, why are you here?"

Is this a Trump website? It wasn't for the first fifteen years I came here. If it considers itself a Trump website, maybe that partially explains the dramatic falloff in participation lately.


Don't crack wise with me sweetheart, this website is all in for Trump, and you're the troll who will soon be on the outside looking in, and if you don't believe that, take it from the Man himself:

IMHO, anti-Trumpers can get lost...A vote for anyone but Trump is a betrayal to America and to every principle we hold dear. If Hillary is elected, we’re done for generations. The liberal activist judges she appoints will be with us for a very long time and will kill off what’s left of our Constitution. If you can’t see that or refuse to see it, you’re an idiot.[Excerpted from:]

290 posted on 7/13/2016, 12:35:35 AM by Jim Robinson

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3448716/posts?page=290#290
83 posted on 08/01/2016 4:54:00 PM PDT by mkjessup (Hillary Rotten Criminal is a f--king murdering sociopath. You want that in the Oval Office?)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Yes until November election... It IS A TRUMP ONLY WEBSITE.
Get over it.


84 posted on 08/01/2016 4:57:26 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10 rounds 10 meters 10 seconds 10 centimetres)
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To: MIA_eccl1212

Ok, after fifteen-eighteen years of conservative posts (which can be confirmed by anyone viewing my posting history), I am now unwelcome because I don’t support a pro-gay, pseudo conservative like Donald Trump. I’ve been told to leave, so I will.


85 posted on 08/01/2016 5:03:42 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Steve_Seattle
Trump is an idiot; one unforced error after another. He’s not even a Christian, and the ultra-Christian folks at FR kiss his butt. Unbelievable.

"Trump is an idiot" - Because he responded to a Muslim who believes in Sharia Law, waives around the Constitution like it's his dick and props up his dead son for political expediency? You sir are an idiot.

"one unforced error after another" - That's because you are a gullible man. You have not learned that the RICO Press could care less what Trump says or does at any given time. His very existence will cause them to find ways to smear and attack him. The usual methodology is to then cower in fear as Republicans have. To apologize and kneel before the RICO Press and their masters the Democratic Party. That's not Trump. If you want to go back to the good old days then take a seat while the ones who have some backbone continue this fight.

"He’s not even a Christian," - Judgmental are we not Mr. Magic man?

"and the ultra-Christian folks at FR kiss his butt. Unbelievable." - No one kisses anyones butt except the ones who get scared whenever the Press gets all phony self-righteous like here about Mr and Mrs. 'Gold Star'. Then you kneel at their altar in fear and kiss their asses.

86 posted on 08/01/2016 5:04:16 PM PDT by Lent
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To: mkjessup; Steve_Seattle

Zippity ZOT!!!!


87 posted on 08/01/2016 5:09:18 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Pinkbell

Just more Hillary voters coming out of the woodwork.


88 posted on 08/01/2016 5:13:07 PM PDT by sport
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To: Steve_Seattle; WildHighlander57; Conservative Gato; Psalm 144; onyx; Jane Long; PA Engineer; ...
Guess you should have listened when I was warning you, but you were too stupid to get it. Do you get it now?

Good riddance scumbag, take your #nevertrumpism and shove it up your A$$!

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"Ya burned yourself up real good asswipe!"
89 posted on 08/01/2016 5:14:35 PM PDT by mkjessup (Hillary Rotten Criminal is a f--king murdering sociopath. You want that in the Oval Office?)
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To: Pinkbell
(Is there a backstory about Khizr Khan and Donald Trump?)

(Khizr Khan was tricked into smearing Donald Trump)

(CAIR prodding Muslim women to speak out against Trump)

(An Open Letter to Khizr Khan | Global Security, Privacy, & Risk ...)

The knee jerk reaction by the MSM, George Will, Steve Hayes....the usual elitist suspects that that take enormous umbrage with Donald Trump whom they can't control...make those men seem petty and little. Hillary Clinton's answer to Mrs. Smiths remarks accusing Hillary of her son's death during the GOP convention, was dealt with by lies from Hillary and using Khizr Khan to further smear Trump.

I wish Trump would stop this theater and stick to the issues...as Laura Ingraham spelled out on Special Report today....he is wasting time answering these nattering claims.....Khizr Kham is a practicing Muslim; his Holy Koran tells him he is to kill all non believers. That is a fact. It is natural to fear anyone who's religion is a threat to your life....(ISIS/Islam/Koran...the latest murders)....(How academia whitewashes Muslim honor killings)

(‘Honor killings’ and Islamic terrorism)

(Honor killing in America: DOJ report says growing problem is hidden in stats)

People of Islam don't assimilate in free society's; the only reason they move into those countries is to slowly form caliphates and demand Sharia Law...count the number of Mosques built in the USA since 1990; take a look at France, Germany...England is trying to save herself now after Muslims began to push too hard. Trump is correct, we need to know who is entering this country and why...who removed those laws/rules...when?

90 posted on 08/01/2016 5:15:22 PM PDT by yoe ( BLM= BENGHAZI LIVES MATTERED.....)
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To: major-pelham

Now, didn’t they go on national television at a political convention no less, and attack Trump? Didn’t they use their son’s death as propaganda? Now it’s coming out that this guy has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. How fake these bastards are. I’d say they made themselves fair game.


91 posted on 08/01/2016 5:15:38 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Grampa Dave
*PING* to Grampa!! Time to update the mighty *ZOT LIST of the DOOMED*.
92 posted on 08/01/2016 5:16:07 PM PDT by mkjessup (Hillary Rotten Criminal is a f--king murdering sociopath. You want that in the Oval Office?)
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To: World'sGoneInsane

It’s all pretty depressing....


93 posted on 08/01/2016 5:17:11 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Steve_Seattle

Well, bye.


94 posted on 08/01/2016 5:17:33 PM PDT by glock rocks (Political Correctness is fascism disguised as manners. -- George Carlin)
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To: Steve_Seattle
I shouldn't have expected you to understand it.

Sullen teen much?

95 posted on 08/01/2016 5:17:37 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: oblomov

He should focus on the economy and Hillary. Hell with everything else. He should never let up on how corrupt Hillary is. How evil she is. What a failure she is. He was extremely effective when he initially did this. That is why they sent this as a distraction.


96 posted on 08/01/2016 5:18:25 PM PDT by sport
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To: CatOwner

Oh, you’re not impressed, are you? I guess you were impressed with Yeb, Kasich and Cruz and the brilliant way they ran their campaigns, right? And the way Hillary rigged the election and allows CAIR representatives to speak at an American convention, right?

What a joke some of you people are. Keep crying for the moon, er, I mean Cruz.


97 posted on 08/01/2016 5:19:01 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Pinkbell

When you see the word “bipartisan” in a Washington Post article, it means “communists, socialists, and one drunk RINO.”


98 posted on 08/01/2016 5:19:08 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Pinkbell
I can't even easily find out what the original comments were. The media is milking this for sure. What the heck was so bad?

FYI, I'm a "Gold Star Father" whose son was killed in Iraq by an RPG apparently fired from a Mosque tower in January, 2005. We lost 3 other Marines as well...


99 posted on 08/01/2016 5:19:34 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: oblomov
Trump should focus on the economy.

Huh uh. It's the emails. This whole teapot tempest is just sleight-of-hand to deflect the fallout from the emails.

100 posted on 08/01/2016 5:21:20 PM PDT by IronJack
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