Posted on 08/03/2016 6:42:34 AM PDT by Pinkbell
Dakota Meyer, the son-in-law of Sarah Palin and a Medal of Honor recipient, has called on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to apologize to the family of slain US Army Capt. Humayun Khan.
Meyer, a Marine Corps veteran and the second youngest living person to receive the military's highest honor, joined the backlash and blasted Trump for criticizing Khan's father and mother after they appeared at the Democratic National Convention in support of Hillary Clinton last week.
'If @realDonaldTrump wants to be the Commander in Chief, he needs to act like one,' Meyer wrote in a tweet to his 73,000 followers. 'And that cant start until he apologizes to the Khans.'
Clinton retweeted Meyer's tweet for her eight million followers. Her campaign has seized on the controversy, and members of Trump's own party have turned against him or distanced themselves from him.
Meyer, 28, who is married to Bristol Palin, the daughter of 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, has been involved in Republican politics and backed Senator Ted Cruz for the nomination.
President Barack Obama awarded Meyer, a former Marine Corps corporal from Columbia, Kentucky, the Medal of Honor in 2011 for his heroic actions during a six-hour battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2009.
Trump has angered politicians on both sides of the political spectrum after he made critical remarks against Khan's father, Khizr, who spoke at the DNC, and mother, Ghazala, who appeared on stage with him. Meyer was awarded the military's highest honor for his heroic actions in Afghanistan
Their 27-year-old son was killed in a suicide attack while serving in Iraq in 2004. The Muslim soldier was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
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I found this and it says exactly what we all think...and it was on a FNC site...
All I can say is, the parents of this veteran are doing far more damage than anyone else has done...and this Con the Khan had NO reason to take OUR candidate to task like he did, his ‘Sharia Law’ WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTED INTO OUR WAY OF LIFE...so if that is what he is planning with his ‘DNC jihad’ then he should leave...IMO!!!
Why is Sarah surrounded by so many idiots outside of her husband. Poor lady. Is it something about Alaska???
And this too shall pass.
Because the Palin's have become the National Enquirer political family. And because his MIL was a Trump supporter so it is news when SIL asks MIL's candidate to apologize. And Bristol has become a public figure, so her husband's thoughts/tweets are public fodder.
Yeah, Dakota, but killary is not supposed to apologize for calling the mother of a Benghazi hero a liar?
Sounds like Sarah has a lugnut for a son-in-law.
I agree with you that ideally he should focus purely on Hillary and policy.
The problem was that interview with George S. who asked him, and the media kept raving about the speech. He should have kept it policy related and moved on. I typed up a sample statement on FR. Trump should have had something like that prepared. To be fair, he did put a statement out, but it was after the hoopla started.
Well, he got her daughter pregnant and then didn’t want to marry her, right?
Palin drama added to Trump drama - too much.
Momma-in-Law is not going to like this.
Yes, way unfocused. He does have the ability to come back, lets just hope he uses it.
Dakota, please quote the exact “attain words” Mr. TRump used?
And maybe she either decided to overlook it, or wanted her child to have a father in the picture. Who knows....but it doesn't look like Meyer is a positive for the Palin clan. IMHO
Had the Khans spoken out against the war. I and almost no one would have a problem with their moral authority to do so. But Kazir Khan made himself the moral authority on the Constitution and Immigration. The former which he believes to be subservient to Sharia and the latter would involved a time machine back to the 80’s when Islamic Terror was not yet a Global Jihadist strategy.
That’s a fact. It seems Trump is all alone in the battle and so are we. The liberal/humanists seem to have every wealthy/influential person alive on their side. WHY??? Socialism has never worked. Or maybe it is the guilty consentience, elitists thinking they will evenly distribute OUR money among the many while they sit back unaffected.
Probably wanted a father to her kid and to end the bad press she was giving to the Palin clan.
I love Sarah - have for almost a decade now and I feel sorry she has to put up with so much crap from some of the dumber family members. Trig and Todd are the smartest by far.
Trump should just ignore the buffoon and move on to more important matters.
Because it attempts to place Donald Trump, who the Democrats/MSM in their ‘evolving’ talking memos define Trump as ‘dark’, then ‘dangerous’, and now as ‘insane’, in a bad light. Dakotas’ tweets are useful to the Democrats/MSM now, then he will be assigned to the dustbin of history as was Cindy Sheehan.
People need to STFU on this issue RIGHT NOW!
This was a deliberate provocation by the Hillary campaign, knowing that Trump would respond (he always does, he’s a bit too predictable), and the media reaction was pre-planned to get Trump off-message for several days.
Unless Dakota Meyer and the rest of the ass-raped Cruz bots WANT to see Hillary appointing Supreme Court Justices, communizing our economy even more, leaving America vulnerable to foreign attack, banning guns and letting in hundreds of thousands of un-vetted Moslems, then they need to STFU. You don’t like Trump, OK, fine. Don’t help Hillary by damning him like we’re in the middle of the primaries (which, I might add, violates Reagan’s 11th Commandment - how conservative can these people be if they do that?).
The error, the conceit, that these idiots have is that everything will be fine in 2020. What BS! If Trump loses, the very same GOPe that brought us Presidents Dole, McCain and Romney will be running things and picking a wet-noodle candidate in 2020 who will dutifully, but gracefully, lose to Hillary. No thanks, I’ll take Trump now AND in 2020 - that way we’ll actually still have a country for Cruz or whomever to have a shot at running later on. Elect Hillary, and this country will cease to exist as we know it.
Meyer needs to stick to learning what a condom is and leave the politics to Trump.
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