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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: torqemada
" By posting these to FR your are helping the media and Hillary to give this story traction."

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.

41 posted on 07/31/2016 8:56:47 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

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


42 posted on 07/31/2016 9:11:00 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Mariner

Let me fix the headline

Bipartisan “media” backlash for Trump, after questioning Khan family

There.


43 posted on 07/31/2016 9:21:43 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: kiltie65

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.


44 posted on 07/31/2016 9:37:59 AM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP ROCKS !!!)
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To: Mariner

Will the Liberals give such royal credence to the families of fallen Benghazi Marines?


45 posted on 07/31/2016 9:39:48 AM PDT by inchworm
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To: Mariner

Khaaaaan! The new myth of the patriotic Muslim.


46 posted on 07/31/2016 9:51:20 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Homer1
It was a gaffe. Politicians and amateurs running for office are prone to them.

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.

47 posted on 07/31/2016 9:51:45 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: Cuttnhorse

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.


48 posted on 07/31/2016 10:52:31 AM PDT by Homer1
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To: flaglady47

they triggered him and he walked right into it. That’s on him.


49 posted on 07/31/2016 10:53:50 AM PDT by Homer1
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To: Mariner

I love the smell of Democrat desperation in the morning. LOL!


50 posted on 07/31/2016 10:57:16 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Mariner

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.


51 posted on 07/31/2016 11:03:37 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Mariner

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.


52 posted on 07/31/2016 11:06:13 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Mariner

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


53 posted on 07/31/2016 11:29:31 AM PDT by uncbob
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