Donald Trump to Father of Fallen Soldier: 'I’ve Made a Lot of Sacrifices'

[riversedge]

Source: abc




Donald Trump to Father of Fallen Soldier: 'I’ve Made a Lot of Sacrifices'

By STEVE TURNHAM

Jul 30, 2016, 12:38 PM ET




PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, July 28, 2016, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Evan Vucci/AP Photo
WATCH Trump to Gold Star Father: 'I've Made a Lot of Sacrifices'


In his first response to a searing charge from bereaved Army father Khizr Khan that he’d “sacrificed nothing” for his country, Donald Trump claimed that he had in fact sacrificed by employing “thousands and thousands of people.” He also suggested that Khan’s wife didn’t speak because she was forbidden to as a Muslim and questioned whether Khan’s words were his own.

“Who wrote that? Did Hillary's script writers write it?” Trump said in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. “I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard.”

On the last night of the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, Gold Star father Khizr Khan, his wife Ghazala by his side, recounted to the crowd how his son was killed in 2004 by a car bomb in Iraq.

Khan also chastised Trump for seeking to ban Muslims from entering the country, saying that his son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, would not have been able to serve under a Trump presidency. ..................

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story?id=41015051

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The GOP has released a monster!! No empathy whatsoever!!--It is all about him.

BTW--Mrs. Khan--the mother, was on The Last Word last night and she spoke up eloquently. Once more Trump has made a fool of himself. I really do not see how Trump can be even or slightly ahead in the polls (waiting for Hillary's bounce, which she will have).

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Donald, quit digging. NT

[PatSeg]

3. Seriously

He really doesn't know when to stop.

[muriel_volestrangler]

36. Remember, he attacked McCain for getting captured, and the Republicans liked that

This is more of the same. He thinks he can get away with attacking anyone who criticises him. With Republicans, it seems he's right. Whether he's thought about if it will work with swing voters, I don't know. But "he's gone too far this time" is the refrain of this crazy year, and Trump is still competitive in the polls.

[AwakeAtLast]

5. Buy him more shovels!

Buy stock in Lowe's!

[riversedge]

23. I keep think he can't get worse, but he does.

[Warpy]

20. Sounds like he might have

forgone a shoe shine because he was late to a meeting with a government official.

I say hand this oaf a bigger shovel. Eventually he'll get down so far the hole will collapse on top of him.

[cstanleytech]

64. As long as it gives him free PR he isnt going to stop digging

because winning the election isnt what important to Trump, its feeding his egomania is what drives him.

[Proud liberal 80]

2. This dude is nuts

In just the last 24 hours he went off on a fire Marshall and accused him of being a Hillary voter just because the Marshall didn't allow the crowd to go past the fire code, he blasted the DNC and Hillary over the dates of the debates even though the dates were set last fall by an independent debate commission, and now this. He says the first thing that vines yo his mind without even thinking.

[mobeau69]

57. If we're lucky there will be one debate. #2 and #3 will never take place.

Mark my word.

[lsewpershad]

4. This ignoramus

has no sense of shame. Too dumb to say anything worthwhile.

[mpcamb]

79. When he gets done criticizing someone, the next sentence is about him.

kind of a pattern...

[jtuck004]

6. Selling your property at a profit but for less than you expected to get is not the kind

of sacrifice we are talking about, swindler.

More like the kind your tenants made when, as a slumlord, you used your dirty tricks to drive them out of their homes. Or those parents made by sending their kids to die, so your kids could help you build your empire on your neighbor's bones.

[0rganism]

7. hoo boy, talk about doubling down on the stupid

is Manafort even talking with Orange Foolius anymore? i can't believe a campaigner like Manafort would let his candidate eat this much of his own shit on TV.

Manafort must have a really BIG october surprise in the works if he's just letting tRump run around unscripted.

[Drahthaardogs]

8. Donald is one mean fucker...

Enough said

[jbond56]

9. #trumpsacrifices one time he had to split caviar with this second wife

[ailsagirl]

66. Hilarious tweets posted in #trumpsacrifices

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Empathy Deficit may be what does him in

contrast with Hillary's life of caring service

Even I was surprised, she is in many ways an ordinary middle class
worrying woman and mother

Voters want leaders they can trust and feel good about and who feels
good about them

Trump is a cynical narcissistic sociopath

[TipTok]

11. Our candidates represent us...

We chose them...

We get what we deserve.

[ailsagirl]

12. He's pathetic

[truthisfreedom]

13. Trump: "Who wrote that?" As his team scrambles to erase

his third wife's history from the Internet.

[exboyfil]

19. That may be the worst thing he said

given that Mr. Khan's heart felt words were given without a teleprompter.

[Stuart G]

31. i agree..."Worst thing he said"

In politics, as in life, there is a time to talk, and a time to not talk..wait..talk later..or not at all..

In going after Khan like he did, when he did..he said the worst thing. and...he knocked the mom/wife too..which had nothing to do with Kahn's speech. Knocking the wife/mom today, maybe it. She was just standing by her husband. quietly.......therefore.........

He is in the hole, and already covered up.
.Some Republicans will go after him for this one...not many ...but some..

[Wellstone ruled]

14. Appears ABC/Disney is all in with this mean spirited sicko.

And to think the Interviewer was a advisor to Bill Clinton. Georgie has really moved to the Dark Side big time. Watch the promo yesterday,and,who wrote the questions,do know Trump will only approve certain questions,what a failure to inform.

[LittleGirl]

15. He needs to turn off Fox spews

My gawd, that man is an IDIOT. He is in no way capable of becoming a President and frankly, he will NEVER be a President to me. Fuck.

[librarylu]

16. I think he misunderstood.

The question is about what he's sacrificed, not whom he's sacrificed.

[Hulk]

17. Such an ignorant, cold hearted pig.

Honest to God, this ass hole is about as low of form of human being as could possible be scrounged up. Nearly everything that comes out of his mouth is insulting and an embarrassment. Just get this election cycle over so he can withdraw to his reality network for his buffoon fan club, and leave the rest of the world in peace.

[narnian60]

26. Well said.

[Eugene]

18. No sense of decency and no sense of honor.

He's made great sacrifices by contributing to a war memorial?

His personal attack against the Khans reaches yet another low.
If this were anybody but Trump, this would be unbelievable.

By the time we reach November, will The Donald go full Brown Shirt?

[riversedge]

21. msnbc talking about how Trump COULD have taken the high road and acknowledged the

grief of losing a son--and instead Trump politicized his comments. This needs to be said now until the end of times!

[exboyfil]

27. Not only that he impugned the motivation of Mr. Khan

and implied that his words were not his words (remember Mr. Khan gave the speech with a teleprompter, and I don't think even the best actor could have made that speech with such feeling if it wasn't their words).

[PSPS]

22. "I really do not see how Trump can be even or slightly ahead in the polls"

He isn't, but the media will create fake polls and prop him up anyway so they have a Potemkin horse race to keep people's attention. Otherwise, people won't tune in and see/hear the ads.

[IggleDoer]

24. Imagine if he were POTUS....

... And he had to write a letter to the parents of fallen soldiers. "Your son's death made me loose a little better. Thanks."

[groundloop]

25. I just KNOW that Team Hillary is gathering material for more ads

tRump just doesn't know when to shut the fuck up. Such a pathetic little rich bastard.

[dhill926]

28. Fuck this asshole…

that is all…

[BeyondGeography]

52. It would be unfair to shitstains

to call him one.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. Trump really is Cheeto Jesus

he's sacrificed so much for us *sniff* *sniff*

Like any employer he's made money off just about every employee he's hired

and casinos suck money from families

He is one sick dude

[kairos12]

30. As a Vet I say a mighty fuck you Drumpt.

[63splitwindow]

32. CIC message to Don the Con...

[bluestateguy]

33. This guy is destroying my once normal blood pressure levels

[MFM008]

55. Me to

I can hear the red blood cells popping....

[3catwoman3]

34. This jerk doesn't have any idea of when to keep his big yap shut.

He is the poster child for this wise advice -

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

[bucolic_frolic]

48. He does take the bait

Expertise on the U.S. Constitution should be a topic for October's debates

now that the topic has been introduced by the erudite Mr. Kahn

The Donald can't say he hasn't been notified!

[caballojm]

35. Time to tell the truth ...

this is all some sort of dark and twisted performance art. Right? He can't be for real.

[C Moon]

37. What I find scary, too, is that there are probably other Republicans who think just like him...

it's just that Trump doesn't understand that it's not a charming quality in a person, so he talks like everyone agrees with him.

[Rustyeye77]

38. Can this guy get any more insulting?

"I've made a lot of sacrifices "

Why an insensitive narcissist .

[ailsagirl]

69. To see a list of these "sacrifices," go to #trumpsacrifices

[left-of-center2012]

39. employing “thousands and thousands of people.”

In Mexico, China, Turkey, etc

[Botany]

41. and not paying contractors who worked for him the agreed on price too.

Everytime he opens his mouth he loses more votes.

[Shrike47]

74. Why is paying your employees a sacrifice? He wanted it for free?

[christx30]

40. Trump isn't worse than other republicans.

He's just willing to say what they are all thinking, but too ashamed to say.

[Aviation Pro]

42. Two words for....

...the stroke-waiting-to-happen, orange-flavored, walking shitstain.

Fuck and you.

A few more. Go fuck yourself and the Eastern European horse you rode in on you fucking five deferment, 'graduate' of a reform school for rich, spoiled fucks.

Did I mention fuck you, poser?

Fuck you.

[RandySF]

43. He sacrificed his first two wives.

[Liberal In Red State]

44. This dude is an ass! How any VET supports this jerk and his clone sons is beyond me!

[world wide wally]

45. NEWS FLASH, Asshole.

We all work hard.
Only most of us don't get a million bucks to get started and then a couple hundred more to bail us out if we fuck up.

[Bonhomme Richard]

46. He did sacrifice his humanity. n/t

[MFM008]

47. He sacrificed ?

The squirming maggot didn't have to
Greet the blown up pieces of a much loved child
On his return from duty.

[retrowire]

49. Here's how I react to people like Trump IRL..

"HOLY SHIT ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID???"

[spiderpig]

50. How dare he impune the Khans by saying the mother was silenced?

Another ethnic stereotype The Donald loves to exploit.

She lost a son. She's a private citizen. I'm a big-mouthed liberal and I couldn't have voiced my sorrow on a public stage. Her husband spoke for both of them.

If you watched Lawrence O'Donnell you heard her speak from the heart.

It's impossible to imagine a more vile excuse for a human being than D Trump. Yes, you can bring up horrible characters from history and I'll agree they were awful. But Trump grew up in a free country with every possible advantage and chooses to be a scum-sucking piece of vermin.

I watch this piece of shit just to find out how low he will go.

[rocktivity]

51. Employing “thousands and thousands of people” IS a sacrifice

especially when they insist on your sacrificing some of the money you made off THEIR "working very, very hard" in the form of compensation.


rocktivity

[RBInMaine]

53. Trump is an inhuman barrel of infected monkey spunk!

[Enoki33]

54. On display here is Trump's ignorance, dangerous imbalance

and total absorbition with himself. How the hell did he get this far? It's been explained by some as a combination of the conditioning by incessant hate talk on right wing radio, Fox News and voter suppression. Thankfully he is not the genius he thinks himself to be.

[Moonwalk]

56. OMG! That comment about Mrs. Khan where he says "Maybe she wasn't allowed..."

...to speak!

I really feel like I'm in bizarro land. How is this man even on the ballot for dog catcher? Let alone president?

Note he doesn't mention what he's sacrificed. As for that war memorial (from politicususa.com)

while Trump was on the board to get the memorial built, he blew off most of the meetings, “* One official of the Vietnam Commission, who has attended all the meetings, maintains Trump has been to only two or three out of 20 meetings. This was confirmed by another member of the commission. The first time he attended a meeting was to launch the commission, one source says, and the second was when he arrived with a reporter who was profiling him.”

As per usual, not an outright lie (like he never was part of the commission) but hardly the truth.

[edbermac]

58. Poor Donald. His fingers are worn down to the manicure.

[LuckyLib]

59. Drumpf cannot simply stay silent. He needs to respond to everything,

all the time. He's out of control in the mouth department, and is unable to STFU.

[bucolic_frolic]

62. That is good

If he can be kept talking about perceived insults, he will have less time
to lay the groundwork for actual policy positions. He is a smoldering
wreck at this point. Keep him occupied, these issues are like a baby's
pacifier to him.

[ailsagirl]

60. An entirely defensive response

He's so clueless to have even responded to that proud statement-- just makes himself look more and more like the
sniveling, pathetic, heartless little SOB he really is.

[smirkymonkey]

61. What a complete sociopath!

Can't he ever let anything pass without having to open up that fat pie hole of his? God, he's such a disgusting, selfish pig!

[mahina]

63. As we say in the islands,

pua ting, you.

What could such a person do now to redeem himself? Apologize for existing, withdraw, and devote his life to easing others' suffering.

Failing that? I don't know.

[DemonGoddess]

70. He is a complete and utter moron

His nastiness to the Khans, then the nasty comment about how "she wasn't allowed to speak". It wasn't that at all. She was INVITED to speak and she couldn't, because of her son's picture (reference the O'Donnell interview for that). She is still so utterly grief stricken with this loss, that seeing his picture so big like that was too much for her. SHE was trying to keep her composure.

[rurallib]

67. sacrifices truth, honesty and integrity many times an hour

how do you think he got rich?

[AllyCat]

68. What sacrifices?? Nothing. He has everything given

to him or he steals it.

[Qutzupalotl]

85. His dignity, decency and humanity,

all sacrificed to his ego.

[jg10003]

71. Trump's biggest sacrifice...

Happened when he went bankrupt. He had to sell his 280 foot yacht.

[Cryptoad]

72. Yea

"Don Jr wanted to go big game hunting in Africa 4 times last year and I had to tell him no mor than 3",,,,,its hard!

[Equinox Moon]

73. What about the challenge regarding tRump never having read the Constitution?

That was my favorite part! Why is the media not talking with him about that? (rhetorical)

ICONIC SPEECH!

[erpowers]

75. Disqualified From Being President

This along with everything else he said should disqualify Donald Trump from being President.

[ashling]

76. Don't remember where I saw it so I don't have a link, but

The dad did not read from a scrript. Just spoke from the heart.

[red dog 1]

77. Trump has taken the term "foot in mouth disease" to new heights

He makes Mitt Romney look like Demosthenes.

Speaking of Demosthenes, he describes Trump perfectly when he said:
"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry, for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit."

[AgadorSparticus]

78. Good god almighty! There is just not enough words to say what a douchebag he is

[nruthie]

80. Oh how I wish he would just shut his miserable mouth and leave us humans alone.

He's a damn nightmare. I just wish I could wake up from it.

[tclambert]

81. Trump sacrificed a lot. He works hard. Why, one time, he almost raised a blister.

[turbinetree]

82. Everytime this narcisstic jerk speaks, the MSM should

bring this up, because this family, the Khans, and the 4685 families in the service, lost more than this dirt bag, he has no clue on to even how to spell sacrifice.

Maybe they should ask this treasonous dirt bag what the number 66 means, maybe the MSM can inform this dirt that Captain Khan was the 66th American to die based on a god damn lie, but he followed the commander-n-chief, because of the Constitution and not some flag.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/hsmkhan.htm






Hey, drumpster, I lost friends in Vietnam, they couldn't vote, because they were under the age of 21, do you remember that little bit of information, while you were getting your five draft deferments, about the bunion infection between your ears.

And while were at it, lets remind the republicans like the Ryan's. and the McConnell's of that party you went to that farse convention, you own this guy and his product--------------think about it, no matter how you try to spin it------------he is the face of your party

[raven mad]

83. I cannot even describe my anger at this asshole.

And I won't try.

[ck4829]

84. "I... I have to... give me a moment *sniffle*... I have to pay people wages!"

[yurbud]

86. employing people is a sacrifice? So he buys the GOP "job creator" talking point

Did he think his hotels and casinos would build themselves? Or that computer terminals would check in guests or robots clean the rooms?

Businesses hire people because they need them to make more money, and the employee makes more money for the company than they are paid or the company wouldn't make a profit.