Suzette Detulio knows the pain of the Khan family. Speaking to a donor gathering hosted by the Koch brothers network, Ryan warned against running a “a vague, platitude election” or “a personality contest” and then expecting “transformational, once-in-a-generation reform”.
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A U.S. Air Force mother got booed at a campaign rally for Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence (R-Ind.) when she asked about Trump’s recent attacks on the Muslim parents of a decorated American soldier, Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq.
Obama’s comments added to a growing number of statements from Republicans and Democrats lambasting Trump for his criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, who appeared at the Democratic National Convention last week.
The back and forth seemed to buttress a chief criticism of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton that the billionaire businessman’s temperament was the issue of campaign 2016.
But it was a speech from an ordinary father, Khizr Khan, whose American Muslim son died in military service in Iraq, that was the most remarkable – as proven by the political fallout of the past few days.
“I saw him. He was very emotional, and probably looked like a nice guy to me”.
Trump responded in an interview with ABC’s “This Week”, saying: “She had nothing to say”. Because her son had died in the war, she had “absolute moral authority” to say anything she wanted about Bush – no matter how unhinged or divorced from reality.
With the Trump campaign preparing for a visit to Green Bay on Friday, Wisconsin veterans are denouncing Donald Trump’s attacks on the parents of an Army Capt. killed in Iraq.
“The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that made such extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our country, the fact that he doesn’t appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues in Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia, means that he is woefully unprepared to do this job”, the president said at the White House. It is about a sense of decency. “That kind decency you mock as ‘political correctness.’ We feel we must speak out and demand you apologize to the Khans, to all Gold Star families, and to all Americans for your offensive, and frankly anti-American, comments”, the families wrote in a letter dated Monday. “His saying my son is a hero or not, that doesn’t change anything”. He has also said that he would have liked to punch some of the speakers he heard the the Democrat convention. “As I said in my speech last week, I don’t think that represents the views of a whole lot of Republicans out there”. In the past, the governor has sought to clean up after Trump made statements that landed him in hot water. Aides to the rest either didn’t respond to requests for comment or said their boss wasn’t available to comment.
Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says Gold Star families of service members killed in war deserve “unconditional love and support” for that sacrifice. “There are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can fix once crossed”, a statement from the head of the Veterans for Foreign Wars read.
The loss of their son is the same loss that thousands – too many thousands – of other Gold Star families have experienced. Independents are split, with 31 percent who say they’re less likely to vote for Trump, and 45 percent who say it doesn’t affect their vote.
Matt Mackowiak, a Republican consultant based in Texas, said this is “the first major controversy of the general election”, meaning the audience is about five to six times larger than the one that paid attention in the Republican primaries. “I hope all this fighting and bickering ends”.
In addition to the sudden appearance of honor killings, clitorectomies, hijabs and massive government frauds, Muslim immigrants have given us: The most devastating terrorist attack in world history, followed by terrorist attacks at Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon, a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Times Square, Vaughan Foods in Oklahoma, San Bernardino and an Orlando nightclub, among other places.
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Nearly any one of them would’ve been better than his response.
