Families Of Fallen Soldiers Remind Trump He Has No
Post# of 65629
Posted On: 08/01/2016 11:29:36 AM
Quote:
Families Of Fallen Soldiers Remind Trump He Has No Idea What Sacrifice Means
“You are not just attacking us, you are cheapening the sacrifice made by those we lost.”
Face it righties, no Dem candidate could survive this self-inflicted and deserved sh*t storm without a serious, irreversible hit to their popularity and poll numbers.
But as most sentient beings know, double standards are a feature and not a bug in todays version of the GOP; especially among it's supporters.
08/01/2016 09:46 am ET
Alana Horowitz Satlin
Assignment Editor
Evan Vucci/Associated Press
Donald Trump is under fire for comments he made about the parents of a Muslim-American soldier who died while serving in Iraq.
The families of over a dozen service members killed in combat criticized Donald Trump’s recent attacks on the parents of a Muslim-American soldier who died while serving in Iraq.
The letter, released Monday by political action committee VoteVets, called Trump’s criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan “repugnant, and personally offensive to us.” The Republican presidential nominee had suggested that Ghazala Khan was being forced to stay silent as her husband delivered a fiery address during last week’s Democratic National Convention.
“When you question a mother’s pain, by implying that her religion, not her grief, kept her from addressing an arena of people, you are attacking us,” the letter, signed by 17 families, read. “When you say your job building buildings is akin to our sacrifice, you are attacking our sacrifice. You are not just attacking us, you are cheapening the sacrifice made by those we lost.”
The families called on Trump, who continued speaking out against the Khans through the weekend and into Monday morning, to formally apologize for his remarks.
Ghazala Khan also responded to Trump’s comments in a Washington Post op-ed published Sunday.
“Donald Trump said I had nothing to say. I do. My son Humayun Khan, an Army captain, died 12 years ago in Iraq,” she wrote. “Every day I feel the pain of his loss. It has been 12 years, but you know hearts of pain can never heal as long as we live. Just talking about it is hard for me all the time ... my husband asked me if I wanted to speak [at the convention] but I told him I could not.”
(1)
(0)