A mourner walks past the grave marker of U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Ayman Taha inside of Section 60 in Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, May 30, 2016.
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The interview drew instant rebuke from Democrats and Republicans, including GOP leaders who said it was unacceptable for the party’s nominee to go after a Gold Star family.
“You have sacrificed nothing and no one”, he continued, then asked Trump if he had ever read the Constitution. Ted Cruz’s father had been involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and the nominee joked that if he lost the race he’d blame his running mate.
Trump has been widely criticized, including by many Republicans, for denouncing the Khans, who are Muslim-Americans. These statements do not reflect the values of patriotism, liberty, duty and honor to country that the Republican Party has historically stood for.
Trump was lambasted, and last week the Clinton campaign produced the Khans to articulate the bigotry behind Trump’s idea.
Trump made his declarations in an interview with The Washington Post in which he also lit into New Hampshire GOP Sen.
The message belied the chaos that has erupted in the Republican Party after the NY real estate magnate engaged for days in a public dispute with the parents of a Muslim American soldier who died in Iraq.
“I think this is a time”, Clinton said, for Republicans “to pick country over party”. We are stronger together. And I’m just not quite there yet.
John McCain of Arizona in their primary battles; he ejected a baby from a campaign rally; he refused to abandon his feud with the Muslim family of a deceased US soldier, then sparked outrage by saying he’d “always wanted” a Purple Heart – awarded for wounds suffered in combat – but that it was “much easier” to receive one from a supporter. “I think, you know, having a dialogue would be much more fruitful”, Ahmed said.
And bringing up Ayotte: “I don’t know Kelly Ayotte”.
I want to thank everyone for your tremendous support. We believed in American democracy; that with hard work and goodness of this country, we could share in and contribute to its blessings. In July, my brother and his friends, all American-educated doctors from top universities, were denied an Airbnb rental for a bachelor party in Los Angeles, an all too common practice for people with first names like Majid, Omar, or Hossein. Many of us, myself included, have intentionally come here for the resources and community that Central Oregon offers. “We don’t need weak people”. The Republican nominee for president challenged that assertion and also implied Ghazala Khan’s religion prevented her from speaking.
Khan’s son, Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq in 2004.
But as has often happened during this terrible campaign, the news hounds are so focused on the blowback to Trump’s outsized and ultrasensitive ego that an actual policy debate – one that should matter significantly as America faces an increasingly hostile world – has eluded public scrutiny. None did so publicly and aides to both Ryan and Ayotte made clear their plans hadn’t changed.
US District Judge Gonzalo Curiel said in a written ruling that there was a “genuine issue of material fact” as to whether Trump knowingly participated in a scheme to cheat the students, who paid up to $35,000 to learn Trump’s real estate investing “secrets” from his “hand-picked” instructors.
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An American news website said the media built the confrontation as a specific line of attack that pitted Trump against the military-and supposedly showed him as a “big meanie racist” in the process.
