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Bipartisan backlash for Trump, after questioning Khan family
AP via Yahoo ^ | July 31st, 2016 | Lisa Lerer and Jon Lemire

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Philosophy; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: desperate; enemedia; hatchetjob; khizrkhan; smeartrump; trump
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To: Mariner

Dems can attack the mother of one of the Benghazi murdered, who condemned Hillary...but Trump cannot do the same to this guy? This is the very definition of a double standard.

If you use your dead kid for political purposes, expect some push back.


21 posted on 07/31/2016 7:33:39 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Pravious
Donald J. Trump Verified account ‏@realDonaldTrump

Captain Khan, killed 12 years ago, was a hero, but this is about RADICAL ISLAMIC TERROR and the weakness of our "leaders" to eradicate it!

What I thought was wrong was the dad going after Trump for his son dying. Hillary voted for the war, Trump didn't. And that comment on what has Trump sacrificed? What has Hillary sacrificed?

The MSM is in a all out war against Trump now - even the NY Post.

22 posted on 07/31/2016 7:33:48 AM PDT by Aria (2016: The gravy train v Donald Trump)
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To: Mariner

His point should have been why are the Democrats parading Muslims while leaving out Baptists, Jews and Catholics. Are their dead sons and daughters not as worthy?


23 posted on 07/31/2016 7:36:23 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Mariner

The truth is that Islam in its pure unadulterated original form is what killed their son and they should be denouncing Islam rather then denoucing those who want to protect Americans from Islamic zealots whose caliphate full of the chaos of war is being spread world wide through immigration. We know the ruse now that Islam is a military operation that demands religious obedience to the caliphate/religion. Muslims are the soldiers, mosques are the headquarters, the barracks and probably also the arsenals. The ruse is up Islam is not a religion but a military operation.


24 posted on 07/31/2016 7:37:14 AM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (F)
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To: Moonman62

14 US Muslim troops died during the Iraq war. I’m proud of all of them. But, Muslims under represent in the US military, and over represent as recipients of US transfer payments. The fact that a dead soldier was a Muslim does not make his death more important than the others that died. Khan’s son died at the hands of a Moslem suicide bomber. What this has to do with Trump is beyond me.


25 posted on 07/31/2016 7:38:36 AM PDT by major-pelham
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To: Mariner

As crazy as it sounds, I don’t think this was any political gaffe by Trump. This is the exact narrative he wants the media to be talking about at this moment, for whatever reason. Perhaps because he wants to remind Bernie voters that Hillary voted for the Iraq war in the first place.


26 posted on 07/31/2016 7:48:17 AM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: Mariner

Under Sharia it is ok for him to beat her and rape only counts if 4 men testify. So it is fair to assume she would not be allowed to talk even if he holds up our Constitution which says she has equal rights to a man.


27 posted on 07/31/2016 7:50:20 AM PDT by bray (The Dark Knight Rises)
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To: Moonman62

Where was the tribute for fallen police officers? They booed the only mention of that.


28 posted on 07/31/2016 7:55:32 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Mariner

Trump is absolutely correct to bring attention to the fact that a Muslim woman is NOT allowed to speak.

The Muslim culture does not recognize the humanity of women, or give women any right to exist. Why shouldn’t Trump point this out?

In any case, this is another incident where the MSM finds something a conservative candidate says and goes ballistic over it, getting every bit of candidate-destroying mileage out of it that they can. Meanwhile, when Hillary said that Americans with German names are Nazis, the media response was non-existent.


29 posted on 07/31/2016 7:56:42 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: MNDude
"for whatever reason"

The reason is that he wants Americans to know that Islam subjugates women, Democrats are hypocrites for not defending them...and he wants Democrats to carry that message for him, on their dime and via the apparatus.

30 posted on 07/31/2016 7:57:15 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

>>>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.<<<

This is priceless, coming from the people who don’t give a DAMN about four murdered Americans, who could have been saved, but for the “What difference does it make?” Beast.


31 posted on 07/31/2016 7:58:05 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Mariner

Trump! Trump!!


32 posted on 07/31/2016 8:00:51 AM PDT by ZULU (Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
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To: Mariner
Not so much desperate as a calculated sustained attack, hoping Trump slips just enough for Clinton to win;

what Trump should have said, "It's tragic that Clinton's votes and policies led to the death of this brave American driver, who happened to be Muslim, as is his right under our Constitution."

Trump has to beat Clnton, and only Clintin. Focus
33 posted on 07/31/2016 8:05:04 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Mariner

Kaine and Clinton - bipartisan - the latest talking point?


34 posted on 07/31/2016 8:10:23 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Mariner

Yet it was perfectly fine for the left to criticize Sean Smith’s mother immediately after her RNC speech.

Trump didn’t even come near what those needle heads were saying about her.


35 posted on 07/31/2016 8:17:15 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: af_vet_1981
driver => officer
Apple sw help, meh
36 posted on 07/31/2016 8:17:35 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Mariner

Mr.Khan attacked Trump personally. He didn’t need to do that. Trump fights back....everytime. If you can’t handle that, too bad.


37 posted on 07/31/2016 8:18:54 AM PDT by jch10 (Obama, now out of excuses.)
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To: jch10

I agree. A democrat Muslim speaking at s political convention politicized his sons death. I saw no liberal empathy for Pat Smith.


38 posted on 07/31/2016 8:34:59 AM PDT by Fu-fu2
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To: ZULU

All they can bring against Trump is tempests in teapots. Every time, Trump should counter with the real malfeasance in office by Hillary.


39 posted on 07/31/2016 8:36:23 AM PDT by kiltie65
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To: Mariner

These stories need to be ignored and buried. By posting these to FR your are helping the media and Hillary to give this story traction. If we can’t help get Trump elected, the least we can do is not hurt his chances by propagating these anti-Trump memes. The low-information voter out there doesn’t know Mr. Khan from Mr. Magoo, but they will if this story continues to smack them in the face every day. So, give it a rest, huh?


40 posted on 07/31/2016 8:52:02 AM PDT by torqemada (If you can't accept my values, you can't have my money.)
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