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 Trumps 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 Trumps comments over the weekend criticizing Khans family. Before she even finished her question the crowd began to boo. Pence waved for them to settle down. Its all right, Pence said adding, Folks, thats what freedom looks like and thats 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 sons service to the country and your familys 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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The media will not report on ONE negative thing about Hillary Clinton..she doesn’t have to spend a dime in this campaign the media is doing ALL of her work for her..for free
“Concerntm noted.”
Why not explain to him how this is a wondrous positive then?
So when the scumbag Khan got up to the podium at the DNC and was first to attack Trump with vitriolic lies about things that Trump had nothing to do with, Trump is supposed to remain silent?
[His penchant for saying stupid sh!t, ]
Trump is saying what is on the minds of every American!!
It’s only “stupid sh*t” because the media is programming mindless idiots to believe that!
Trump has said or done NOTHING controversial. Yet Hillary can get away with killing 4 American soldiers, leaking classified information, publicly lying, and gets away scot-free...
Trump, in a few words, spotlighted a muzzie operative. And now we learn more about another Clinton-linked anti-American player.
The first hint was when she introduced herself as the mother of a military member before slamming Pence with innuendo disguised as a question. Cindy sheehan all over again.
[You need to get your sniveling cowardice under control.]
Probably some pansy-assed Libertarian...
Shut up, shill. This is a media fiasco based on lies. It's because Trump ISN'T making any mistakes that you've been paid to be a FUD shill. Get lost.
Because trump actually stood up to muslims, our enemy, instead of cowering like every other Republican.
IT’S REALLY NOT THAT HARD, BRAH.
If they don’t answer right away, then it means they have already done their jobs which is to try and clutter FR with media pumped lies.
Both ‘Toliph’ and ‘theoilpainter’ were born on FR less than a year ago and seem to be a tag team. Fairly evident to infer what they’re up to.
Trump for President.
The game they play is to state that Trump “criticized,” or “attacked,” a Gold Star family without ever specifying his quotes. It’s an old leftist ploy: smear with a broad brush, and never mind if it’s true or not.
What Trump actually said was that he’d like to hear from the mother. The leftists have turned that comment into the vilest attack ever aimed at a human being—and droves of hot house conservatives are beside themselves with eagerness to agree.
> “Let stupid remarks pass.”
What did Donald say that was ‘stupid’?
i can’t really deal with the yellow bellied cowards around here anymore.
Making me friggin’ sick.
Disgusting.
And tell us how this magnificent uncovering is going? I guess that would explain the flogging that guy is taking in the press...oh wait.
Buck up friend. Trump is the first Republican candidate in a long time who doesn't make a groveling apology when confronted by phony, made up, democrat outrage.
Why not ?
Because I'm in the middle of some lunch, then have 200' of fence to paint, and he/she can do their own damned research, that's why !
Trump and his team didn't get to where they are today by being fools.
And amazingly enough, they didn't need my or Toliph's advice to get there either.
They're playing the enemedia like fiddles, and I've confidence that they'll handle these daily shitestorms quite handily in the long run.
Maybe you should take a swing too.
Here’s a flail, go ahead.
Shut up and finish your donut, Vinnie. Then get out.
- The troll on the mom was funny to us, but goes over like a fart in church to ordinary swing voters. Best let your surrogates do that.
- Comparing Trump’s own hard work to the sacrifices made by the parents of children killed in war was dumb.
The real problem here is that Trump is engaging with this guy at all. It could have been dealt with in three sentences:
“I have the deepest sympathies for the Khans, and we should all applaud the heroic sacrifice of Capt. Khan. I agree that few people have made sacrifices as profound as their own. However, it is simply not true that the Constitution requires that we accept people from countries with close ties to terrorism, and I will not put the American people at risk by continuing to import people who hate us,” etc., etc.
Trump needs to grow up and get a thicker skin, and fast.
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