Posted on 08/02/2016 9:53:17 AM PDT by Nachum
During a town hall meeting in Nevada, Mike Pence was challenged on his support for Donald Trump despite Trump’s comments over the weekend criticizing a gold star family. Pence handled the situation well, first calming the crowd and then offering his respect to the person asking the question and then to the Khan family.
“You have a son in the military, how do you tolerate his disrespect?” the woman asked, referring to Trump’s comments over the weekend criticizing Khan’s family. Before she even finished her question the crowd began to boo. Pence waved for them to settle down. “It’s all right,” Pence said adding, “Folks, that’s what freedom looks like and that’s what freedom sounds like.” This brought a round of applause.
Pence turned back toward the woman, who had taken her seat, and said, “Let me just say first I want to honor your son’s service to the country and your family’s service to the country. I truly do.” This brought another round of applause.
“I know this has been much in the news of late, in the last few days, but as I said last night as Donald Trump said Saturday night, Captain Khan is an American hero and we honor him and honor his family as we do all gold star families in this country,” Pence said.
Pence then went beyond the talking points by adding some detail. “The story of Captain Khan is an incredibly inspiring story. June 8th, 2004 he would fall in Iraq…an explosive device in a taxi,” Pence said. He continued,”He was awarded medals, posthumously, because like any great leader he…the accounts of that were that Captain Khan moved people out of the way, told them stay back and he went toward the danger.” “Honestly, again, Captain Khan is an American hero,” Pence
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“If Trump had responded like Pence, Khan would never have seen the light of day and the press would still be focused on the emails, the DNC alliance against Bernie, and Hillary’s four Pinocchio’s.”
Surely this was meant as a joke. I can’t believe any who’s actually watched the media or read mainstream journalists would really believe that. The press barely wanted to discuss those subjects (or anything negative for Hillary) for a couple of days after they broke and would certainly have already moved on to other topics of their own devising regardless of whatever else happened. The idea that the mainstream media would spend weeks talking about Hillary’s “Pinocchios” or deleted emails is really very humorous. (If only we lived in such a world!) They long ago stopped talking about the emails until Trump forced them to with his Russia comments.
You make good points. Bailing on the debates won’t look good for Hillary—but participating in them could end up looking/being far worse. It will be interesting to watch.
That makes a lot of sense. In his tightly scripted convention appearance Khan looked fairly American. When he got done with his Trump-induced temper tantrum, he looked thoroughly muslim.
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