Posted on 08/02/2016 11:14:16 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
The most potent moment of the Democratic convention last week was when Khizr Khan, father of an Army captain killed in Iraq in 2004, challenged Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States. "You have sacrificed nothing and no one," Khan said to Trump, holding aloft a copy of the Constitution that he suggested Trump read.
Trump's immediate response was to criticize Khan and his wife, earning a number of rebukes from veterans and members of his own party. "There are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can repair once crossed," said a statement from the head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
At a campaign event in Virginia on Tuesday, Trump tried to mend any damage he'd done with members of the military in an unusual way: He accepted a Purple Heart from a veteran in the audience.
"Something very nice just happened to me. A man came up to me and he handed me his Purple Heart," Trump said. "I said to him, is that the real one, or is that a copy? He said, 'That's my real Purple Heart. I have such confidence in you.' And I said, 'Man, that's big stuff.'"
"I always wanted to get the Purple Heart," Trump continued. "This was much easier."
The Purple Heart is given to those serving in the armed forces who are wounded in combat. Trump never served in the military, though he once said that he "always felt that I was in the military" because he went to military school. He was old enough to have been drafted during the Vietnam War, but received five deferments. Four of them were because he was still in school; the fifth was medical. Trump, his doctor said, had bone spurs on his heels.
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All of the sudden, everyone cares about veterans this week!
Poorly worded. No one wants to get a Purple Heart.
Wow..the post is off the rails for Hillary what scum they aren’t journalists for reporting this crap
[Poorly worded. No one wants to get a Purple Heart.]
Those who love AMERICA knows what TRUMP meant.
Bill and Hill? Was Bill a draft dodger?
He should just sit down with John Kerry and find out how to 4 Band-Aid purple hearts. I hear it was easy.
HA!! The desperate Dems and media are hoping this meme is THE political nuke that takes out Trump. Instead, they'll over-use their meme so much that it'll lose its impact.
There is NO way Trump can lose the vote of the US military and their families to the same Hillary Clinton who hung out to dry 40 of their own and WATCHED the slaughter via CCTV while popping popcorn. THEN LIED ABOUT IT.
Trump has THREE months to bury Hillary and the Dems in a mountain of scandals.
This and khan will last as long as a fart in the wind
Why are they outraged? What did Trump actually say? Read this and tell me. I see no disparagement of the soldier at all. This is a concerted fabrication. We need to be reminded of Trump’s actual words . read them over and over and tell me what is wrong with his facts.
“I saw him,” Trump said of the speech. “He was very emotional and probably looked like a nice guy to me. His wife … 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 continued. “But plenty of people have written that. She was extremely quiet, and it looked like she had nothing to say. A lot of people have said that.”
Now Americans— THAT’S IT?? I don’t understand the smear job they are getting away with in the media. He said absolutely nothing about the soldier. Everything he said was absolute fact!! What is going on here?
This Khan , muslim activist , is despicable using his son to push his agenda .
So he tells us that he “sacrificed” his son ??!!!
We don’t have the same notion of sacrifice . Does he practice human sacrifices ? Its beyond understanding .
This man has no dignity but a TOOL has no dignity
So much so that they'd now vote for Hitlery? I DON'T THINK SO.
The Hag and Dems (and hopefully the GOPe traitors) will be pounded relentlessly and with more specificity on any number of brutal scandals now that they've made the mistake of re-energized Trump, his staff, and his supporters.
This and khan will last as long as a fart in the wind
Yes, if Trump leaves it alone.
I do.
He will do his usual run it for a while and move on
I want to see Khan hang around longer than that. Get him interviewed on his thoughts on sharia law. An angry screaming Muslim on TV only helps Trump, but most are too concerned to see that.
I suppose he will.
Good retort.
Khan -- a Muzzie Activist and Jihadist Immigration Lawyer -- is exploiting his own son's life to justify and advance (what else?) the Muslim Invasion.
How many thousands of Christian Americans have bled and died for this Death Cult in Death Cult territory? (thank you again, George Saudi Bush)
How many Americans have died IN America in the past calender year at the hands of Muslim Terrorism? Or since 911? Anyone counting?
“Poorly worded. No one wants to get a Purple Heart”
Didn’t think of that. I think his reaction bordered on tacky.
The media is in such a frenzy to take out Trump that he could say “The sky is blue” and they would gin up a week-long controversy about it.
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