Is there any decency or humanity left in Mr. In his case, you really can’t teach an old dog new tricks.įor Donald Trump and his surrogates to have the audacity to imply that Khizr Khan is an Islamic radical or terrorist or is associated with them is disgraceful. The old ways of running a presidential campaign don’t seem to apply to candidate Trump. Just ask all the Gold Star families he’s insulted with his comments about Mr. Well, he is the Republican presidential candidate now, but still is the same ol’ attack dog he was a few months ago. As one opponent after the other dropped out of the race, he told the media he’d be a changed candidate once he received the GOP nomination.
Lost in all the tweets and TV appearances between Donald Trump and the Khan family is this: What happened to Trump becoming more presidential?ĭuring the primaries, The Donald savaged his opponents with a never-ending series of unflattering comments. As a veteran, I am proud of his son for fighting our enemies and sorry for his death. Trump wants to protect our country by controlling immigration exactly as our Constitution and laws provide. He disgraced the memory of his son by his ranting and false accusation against Mr. Khan, the Muslim whose son was in our military and was killed fighting ISIS, should be ashamed of allowing himself to be used as a political tool by Hillary. This blatant support of Hillary Clinton must stop.Īm I missing something? When Khizr Khan stood up in front of all those listening to the Democratic National Convention, did he ever state he read the Constitution and that he places our laws above Sharia Law? It appeared that he was practicing Sharia Law by preventing his wife from speaking. Instead, the Khans are on national TV expressing their hatred of Trump. The Khan family is not being treated that way. Where was the same outrage when Hillary Clinton called Patricia Smith, also a Gold Star mother, a lair? She said, “I was treated like dirt.” He simply asked why Ghazala Klan, a Gold Star mother, did not speak or wasn’t allowed to do so.
The headlines in newspapers and television are filled with exaggerations and innuendos about the falsely implied thinking of Trump and his bias regarding Muslins. soldier) attack on Donald Trump and his responding comments. Re: “Trump again defends criticism of parents of Muslim soldier faces bipartisan backlash” : I am personally offended and enraged over the political hypocrisy perpetuated by the mainstream media and the Orange County Register over the Khizr and Ghazala Khan (Muslim parents of a fallen U.S.