Posted on 07/31/2016 3:38:49 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan have both come out with statements strongly defending Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier killed in combat in 2004 whose father Khizr Khan made an emotional plea against Donald Trump's candidacy at the Democratic National Convention.
The statements come after Trump's controversial response to the Khan family, and after a personal appeal from Khizr Khan to to both the Senate Majority Leader and the House Speaker to denounce the GOP nominee.
Neither McConnell nor Ryan mention Trump by name in their statements, but the repudiation of the GOP nominee is implicit in both responses.
"All Americans should value the patriotic service of the patriots who volunteer to selflessly defend us in the armed services. And as I have long made clear, I agree with the Khans and families across the country that a travel ban on all members of a religion is simply contrary to American values," McConnell wrote.
Ryan followed with a similar response. “America's greatness is built on the principles of liberty and preserved by the men and women who wear the uniform to defend it. As I have said on numerous occasions, a religious test for entering our country is not reflective of these fundamental values. I reject it.
"Many Muslim Americans have served valiantly in our military, and made the ultimate sacrifice," Ryan continued. "Captain Khan was one such brave example. His sacrifice -- and that of Khizr and Ghazala Khan -- should always be honored. Period.”
(Snip)
In an interview on MSNBC the day after Khizr Khan addressed the convention, he begged McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan -- both of whom he referred to as "leaders and patriots" -- to speak out against the GOP nominee, calling it a "moral imperative."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
I have been busy and just found out about that Khan situation. I saw what must have been Trump’s response, and he said nothing at all about the dead soldier. I am sure if he had, the MSM would have dropped all programing and ran it nonstop 24-7.
‘I have little faith in someone whose response borders on the egotistically psychotic.’
Please quote the part of Trump’s response that borders on psychotic.
Bonus question. Do you really know what psychotic means?
Khan, a lawyer with an advanced degree from Harvard, has since his Thursday speech become something of a hero among American Muslims long battling the influence of Trump and Trump-like bias."
bttt
NO WE DON’T
We know the father is a liberal who is more than likely paid very well by the crime family foundation.
The media is ALL in the tank for Hillary.
It’s a direct quote from the Drudge Report
.
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
How long do you think Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid would last if they were working to defeat Hillary?
That Answer and its implications portend major uprisings for middle class taxpayers carrying this country.
“He got sucked in again my Saggilopolous...”
Yes, he did.
He needs to stop rising to the bait.
I hope he does not comment any further about this.
He is just getting crucified out there!
I am all in for Trump!
I just hope he learned a lesson from this about being
baited, and walking into a trap like the one Steffie
set up for him!
This whole controversy is consistent with Democrats who find “unassailable” victim who make partisan statements but cannot be criticized. Remember the leftist widows of 9.11.
‘You won’t win the court of public opinion by criticizing the Gold Star mom.’
I missed the part where Trump criticized the mother. Please elaborate.
Are you still out there, Pinkbell? I’m waiting.
I am so glad that Donald Trump is the nominee because we can ALL see the Republican Party for what they are..nothing more than Rats who dress better. They spend all their time trashing Trump but dont defend a mother like Patricia Smith whose son was MURDERED in Benghazi, and who the media and Clinton have been calling a LIAR for weeks..these same turds dont say a peep about her but come rushing out to defend this Khan character who hates Trump because Trump doesn’t want Jihadists in this country
Trump IS going to break the cycle of PC in this country if it kills him!!! The country agrees with him we DONT have FREE SPEECH we have speech the government deems OK!!!!!
I always heard the meme that Political Correctness is fascism.
I never really thought that.
Now I do.
Khan has connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Clinton Foundation..he talks about how if Trump were President he would get deported, hmmmm, is Khan admitting he is in the country ILLEGALLY..yeah Im all for deporting his a@@ so sick of seeing this Jihadist on TV talking about how great Islam is..tell that to the French, the Germans, the families of the 9/11 victims, tell them how awesome Islam is
So did Trump. He called him a hero. What’s the problem.
Trump acknowledged Kahn’s son’s service and sacrifice, too.
Read this one shoe at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3455061/posts
Also a Muslim brotherhood follower and immigrant lawyer too as well as Clinton foundation lawyer links .
Keeps getting better
Aleady have it up online.
@washingtonpost @politicspodcast @PostOpinions Kahn wrote art. titled Jurist Classification of..Sharia Law. Full of usual Sharia intolerance
It’s all I could fit!! Write too many and you lose followers.
Best I could do
“I work very, very hard. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs.”
In the context of one’s dying for whatever reason, the comparison to working hard is egotistical if one is making the claim of working hard or having worked hard.
I am well aware of what constitutes a psychosis—a general detachment from reality which is something like what we are dealing with here.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.