Backlash For Trump After He Lashes Out At The Muslim Parents Of A Dead U.S. Soldier

[Purveyor]

Source: Washington Post

By Jose A. DelReal and Anne Gearan July 30 at 6:50 PM

Republican Donald Trump lashed out Saturday at two Muslim American parents who lost their son while he served in the U.S. military in Iraq and who appeared at the Democratic National Convention last week, stirring outrage among critics who said the episode proves that Trump lacks the compassion and temperament to be president.

Asked to comment on the convention speech of Khizr Khan, a Pakistani immigrant whose son, Army Capt. Humayun Khan, died in Iraq in 2004, Trump described Khan as “very emotional” and said he “probably looked like a nice guy to me” — then accused him of being controlled by the Clinton campaign.

“Who wrote that? Did Hillary’s script writers write it?” he asked in an interview with ABC.

Trump also questioned why Khan’s wife, Ghazala, did not speak on stage, despite the fact that she sat for an interview with MSNBC the following day.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/backlash-for-trump-after-he-lashes-out-at-the-muslim-parents-of-a-dead-us-soldier/2016/07/30/34b0aad4-5671-11e6-88eb-7dda4e2f2aec_story.html

[DonViejo]

1. Here...

Although only the latest instance in which Trump has attacked a convention speaker, the Republican nominee’s remarks drew strong rebukes Saturday — but only silence from several senior GOP leaders, including House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the vice-presidential nominee, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

“Trump’s slur against Captain Khan’s mother is, even for him, beyond the pale,” tweeted John Weaver, a Republican strategist for Ohio Gov. John Kasich. “He has NO redeeming qualities.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/backlash-for-trump-after-he-lashes-out-at-the-muslim-parents-of-a-dead-us-soldier/2016/07/30/34b0aad4-5671-11e6-88eb-7dda4e2f2aec_story.html

[Chevy]

7. Kasichs team has been hitting Trump often

They could be setting Trump for a big loss in Ohio.

[calguy]

19. Kasich is setting himself up for 2020

[global1]

2. Trump Must Really Believe That There Is No Such Thing As....

bad publicity.

[Pluvious]

21. He believes he can shoot puppies with a shotgun and still get a boost in the polls !

[Rose Siding]

48. His core will never desert him. He validates the ugliest parts of their hearts.

That satisfies a basic human need to feel love/lovable. Powerful stuff for the beast that's been nurtured by rw media for decades.

[oioioi]

40. and he's right, to a point...

we are apparently past that point now, thankfully.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Paranoid narcissistic wart

there's always a reason why it's all tilted against him, he looks for
reasons behind everything even when things are simply what they are

"something's going on" as per Colbert's monologue of weeks ago

paranoid, cynical, harsh, and just plain weird and creepy

[Skittles]

11. absolutely correct

[RKP5637]

27. In short, he's a really F'ed up dude! n/t

[left-of-center2012]

4. “I think my popularity with the vets is through the roof,”

We need to remind vets Trump avoided the draft, and equated his avoiding venereal disease when engaging in sex with a lot of women as his 'personal Vietnam'.

[Marcuse]

10. Remind Veterans of this:

Mr. Trump said his experience at the New York Military Academy, an expensive prep school where his parents had sent him to correct poor behavior, gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”
[link:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/us/politics/donald-trump-likens-his-schooling-to-military-service-in-book.html?_r=0|

[sarge43]

12. Also remind veterans Trump trashed a Gold Star mother.

Further, remind them how and why her son died.

[Moonwalk]

13. I don't think we need to remind Vets of anything. Trump is reminding them again and again....

...that he is not, nor has he ever been there for them...and his popularity with them will be eroded by his own words, I think.

[meow2u3]

25. Vets would like to throw HIM through the roof

They hate him with an abiding passion!

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. The man has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. n/t

[yardwork]

34. That says it all, really.

[catbyte]

39. I've described Trump & his entire ghastly campaign as political pornography--

no redeeming social value, whatsoever.

[safeinOhio]

6. Upper class

With no class.

[Kingofalldems]

8. Republicans should put out a joint statement--

thoroughly condemning Trump's hate speech. But they won't.

[Thinkingabout]

9. What is amazing when speaking to RWers they are unable to hear the loose cannon

They are willing to elect. The same people praised W also.

[AKing]

32. About 25& of the population is the GOP base that would vote for a reptile...

Watching them squirm with Trump is entertaining to say the least

[mobeau69]

14. The moron is out of control.

Attack the heroes parents? Great idea! Please proceed. They've gotta be high-fiven on that big blue bus in PA. Hahahahaha!

[uawchild]

15. Trump is just a horrible excuse of a human being. n/t

[mobeau69]

20. As Gail Collins wrote about four years ago

"He's everything your mother told you not to be."

[calimary]

33. I once heard him referred to as

the kind of individual who reminds women of their ex-husbands (the reprehensible SOB kind, that is).

[catbyte]

38. That is perfect.

I've never had an ex-husband myself, but to hear my friends who do have them tell it, the description is perfection.

[ailsagirl]

16. How many times has this cretin put his foot in his mouth??

If he or anyone from his "campaign" had listened to the interview the parents gave to Lawrence O'Donnell yesterday, they'd know why Khan's wife didn't speak. She was too emotional to, plain and simple. How dare he question those patriots' motives? He thought Hillary speech writers wrote Mr. Khan's speech????

Geez, he makes me furious

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Here's a link to the speech:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017394709

[Mr.Bill]

17. To paraphrase Obama,

Proceed Mr. Trump. Proceed.

[keithbvadu2]

22. “Who wrote that?" - So funny coming from the plagiarist's spouse and

the father of young Trump who made a false accusation of plagiarism.

[ffr]

23. He's doing everything in his power to lose big

Let's help him get that wish.

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[nikto]

24. PRIORITIES----We all unite to crush Trump NOW ...

And hopefully, stay together, after the election, to keep the pressure up on Hillary and the DNC to
work doggedly on the Progressive promises they have made to America.

That's the 2nd-half of The Deal, in my view.

[mobeau69]

29. Nah. Just let tRunp handle it.

He's doing a real good job all by himself. I think this is the one we've been waiting on. RIP GOP.

[nikto]

47. I take nothing for granted with the stakes this high

I'll be able to relax and breathe easy again, once DT is crushed in November.

Not before.

[The_Casual_Observer]

26. That's not all he said

[no_hypocrisy]

28. Trump made two mistakes that McCarthy made:

1) He went after the military (Trump went after a dead soldier and McCarthy, the institution),

and

2) He went after an innocent young man, almost for sport.

His other father, Roy Cohn, wasn't here to warn him.

Hope Trump is condemned and then forgotten like McCarthy.

[KingCharlemagne]

52. Seriously spot on! IIRC, Ike started actively working against Tailgunner Joe when the latter

started attacking Ike's beloved Army.

[SCantiGOP]

30. I have sent this to my list of 8 GOP friends

We argue constantly on line. Sent it 30 minutes ago and no one has responded yet. This is the worst yet.

[jaysunb]

43. Please update when you do ( hear from them )

I'd really like to know what they think.

[turbinetree]

35. In honor to a man that cared about his fellow soldiers

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


enough said to a hero

[Grammy23]

36. Don't forget that tRump also said

he knows more about Isis than the generals do. The arrogance of this sick man knows no limit. I can't imagine him in a position of leadership with decision making power. We are so screwed if this happens.

[catbyte]

37. He just can't help himself, can he? His narcissism is pathological. And terrifying.

[raven mad]

41. Sig heil...............

He's a psychopath.

[MrModerate]

42. To the extent that the President is Head of State as well as Head of Government . . .

I think this tells us all we need to now about 'diplomacy' during a theoretical Trump presidency.

[BlueInPhilly]

44. Psyched!

I have this little voice insisting that Trump will scream on 11/9 "PSYCHED! I was just kidding! Did not want to run anyway!"
"

[El Shaman]

45. Don't forget

McShame and all the losers too!! Right Donnie- 'tiny fingers - and brain'.

[Judi Lynn]

46. Trump in hot water over comments about Muslim father's convention speech

Trump in hot water over comments about Muslim father's convention speech

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has come under fire for comments about the mother of a Muslim US Army soldier killed in Iraq. Trump's remarks have drawn criticism from Hillary Clinton and leading Democrats.

Date 31.07.2016

Donald Trump stirred up more controversy on Saturday over comments about the mother of a decorated Muslim US Army captain killed in Iraq, defending himself against accusations from the soldier's father that he had never sacrificed anything.

Pakistani-American lawyer Khizr Khan gave a moving speech at the Democratic convention on Thursday that criticized Trump's anti-Muslim, anti-minority and anti-women comments. He was flanked by his wife Ghazala Khan, who wore a headscarf and chose not to speak.

Their son, Captain Humayun Khan, was killed by a bomb in Iraq in 2004, and was later honored with a Bronze Star and Purple Heart.

"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." The comments were taken on social media to mean that as a female Muslim she wasn't allowed to speak.

More:
http://www.dw.com/en/trump-in-hot-water-over-comments-about-muslim-fathers-convention-speech/a-19439606

[tawadi]

49. The mother was clearly shattered

To go after a couple that heart broken is unforgivable.

[ck4829]

50. This is where Trump's rhetoric hits, dare I say it, a wall.

When "the Muslims" go from being these almost alien foreigners with strange beliefs and customs far away on the other side of the world to being, you know, your neighbors and friends, then your agenda of making them the former will fail.

[tawadi]

51. Anastasia Somoza said it best

“for anyone with that much hate in their heart.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/289193-disability-rights-advocate-i-feel-sorry-for-trump

[smirkymonkey]

53. K&R