Donald Trump to Father of Fallen Soldier: 'I’ve Made a Lot of Sacrifices'
Source: abc
Donald Trump to Father of Fallen Soldier: 'Ive Made a Lot of Sacrifices'
By STEVE TURNHAM
Jul 30, 2016, 12:38 PM ET
PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, July 28, 2016, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Evan Vucci/AP Photo
WATCH Trump to Gold Star Father: 'I've Made a Lot of Sacrifices'
In his first response to a searing charge from bereaved Army father Khizr Khan that hed sacrificed nothing for his country, Donald Trump claimed that he had in fact sacrificed by employing thousands and thousands of people. He also suggested that Khans wife didnt speak because she was forbidden to as a Muslim and questioned whether Khans words were his own.
Who wrote that? Did Hillary's script writers write it? Trump said in an interview with ABC News George Stephanopoulos. I think I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard.
On the last night of the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, Gold Star father Khizr Khan, his wife Ghazala by his side, recounted to the crowd how his son was killed in 2004 by a car bomb in Iraq.
Khan also chastised Trump for seeking to ban Muslims from entering the country, saying that his son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, would not have been able to serve under a Trump presidency. ..................
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story?id=41015051
The GOP has released a monster!! No empathy whatsoever!!--It is all about him.
BTW--Mrs. Khan--the mother, was on The Last Word last night and she spoke up eloquently. Once more Trump has made a fool of himself. I really do not see how Trump can be even or slightly ahead in the polls (waiting for Hillary's bounce, which she will have).
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,756 posts)PatSeg
(47,770 posts)He really doesn't know when to stop.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,414 posts)This is more of the same. He thinks he can get away with attacking anyone who criticises him. With Republicans, it seems he's right. Whether he's thought about if it will work with swing voters, I don't know. But "he's gone too far this time" is the refrain of this crazy year, and Trump is still competitive in the polls.
AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)Buy stock in Lowe's!
riversedge
(70,464 posts)Warpy
(111,467 posts)forgone a shoe shine because he was late to a meeting with a government official.
I say hand this oaf a bigger shovel. Eventually he'll get down so far the hole will collapse on top of him.
cstanleytech
(26,361 posts)because winning the election isnt what important to Trump, its feeding his egomania is what drives him.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)In just the last 24 hours he went off on a fire Marshall and accused him of being a Hillary voter just because the Marshall didn't allow the crowd to go past the fire code, he blasted the DNC and Hillary over the dates of the debates even though the dates were set last fall by an independent debate commission, and now this. He says the first thing that vines yo his mind without even thinking.
mobeau69
(11,169 posts)Mark my word.
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)has no sense of shame. Too dumb to say anything worthwhile.
mpcamb
(2,883 posts)kind of a pattern...
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)of sacrifice we are talking about, swindler.
More like the kind your tenants made when, as a slumlord, you used your dirty tricks to drive them out of their homes. Or those parents made by sending their kids to die, so your kids could help you build your empire on your neighbor's bones.
0rganism
(23,994 posts)is Manafort even talking with Orange Foolius anymore? i can't believe a campaigner like Manafort would let his candidate eat this much of his own shit on TV.
Manafort must have a really BIG october surprise in the works if he's just letting tRump run around unscripted.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Enough said
jbond56
(403 posts)ailsagirl
(22,909 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,511 posts)contrast with Hillary's life of caring service
Even I was surprised, she is in many ways an ordinary middle class
worrying woman and mother
Voters want leaders they can trust and feel good about and who feels
good about them
Trump is a cynical narcissistic sociopath
TipTok
(2,474 posts)We chose them...
We get what we deserve.
ailsagirl
(22,909 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,169 posts)his third wife's history from the Internet.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)given that Mr. Khan's heart felt words were given without a teleprompter.
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)In politics, as in life, there is a time to talk, and a time to not talk..wait..talk later..or not at all..
In going after Khan like he did, when he did..he said the worst thing. and...he knocked the mom/wife too..which had nothing to do with Kahn's speech. Knocking the wife/mom today, maybe it. She was just standing by her husband. quietly.......therefore.........
He is in the hole, and already covered up.
.Some Republicans will go after him for this one...not many ...but some..
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)And to think the Interviewer was a advisor to Bill Clinton. Georgie has really moved to the Dark Side big time. Watch the promo yesterday,and,who wrote the questions,do know Trump will only approve certain questions,what a failure to inform.
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)My gawd, that man is an IDIOT. He is in no way capable of becoming a President and frankly, he will NEVER be a President to me. Fuck.
librarylu
(503 posts)The question is about what he's sacrificed, not whom he's sacrificed.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)Honest to God, this ass hole is about as low of form of human being as could possible be scrounged up. Nearly everything that comes out of his mouth is insulting and an embarrassment. Just get this election cycle over so he can withdraw to his reality network for his buffoon fan club, and leave the rest of the world in peace.
narnian60
(3,510 posts)Eugene
(61,974 posts)He's made great sacrifices by contributing to a war memorial?
His personal attack against the Khans reaches yet another low.
If this were anybody but Trump, this would be unbelievable.
By the time we reach November, will The Donald go full Brown Shirt?
riversedge
(70,464 posts)grief of losing a son--and instead Trump politicized his comments. This needs to be said now until the end of times!
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)and implied that his words were not his words (remember Mr. Khan gave the speech with a teleprompter, and I don't think even the best actor could have made that speech with such feeling if it wasn't their words).
PSPS
(13,644 posts)He isn't, but the media will create fake polls and prop him up anyway so they have a Potemkin horse race to keep people's attention. Otherwise, people won't tune in and see/hear the ads.
IggleDoer
(1,186 posts)... And he had to write a letter to the parents of fallen soldiers. "Your son's death made me loose a little better. Thanks."
groundloop
(11,537 posts)tRump just doesn't know when to shut the fuck up. Such a pathetic little rich bastard.
dhill926
(16,390 posts)that is all
BeyondGeography
(39,395 posts)to call him one.
bucolic_frolic
(43,511 posts)he's sacrificed so much for us *sniff* *sniff*
Like any employer he's made money off just about every employee he's hired
and casinos suck money from families
He is one sick dude
kairos12
(12,906 posts)63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)MFM008
(19,837 posts)I can hear the red blood cells popping....
3catwoman3
(24,133 posts)He is the poster child for this wise advice -
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
bucolic_frolic
(43,511 posts)Expertise on the U.S. Constitution should be a topic for October's debates
now that the topic has been introduced by the erudite Mr. Kahn
The Donald can't say he hasn't been notified!
caballojm
(273 posts)this is all some sort of dark and twisted performance art. Right? He can't be for real.
C Moon
(12,226 posts)it's just that Trump doesn't understand that it's not a charming quality in a person, so he talks like everyone agrees with him.
Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)"I've made a lot of sacrifices "
Why an insensitive narcissist .
ailsagirl
(22,909 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)In Mexico, China, Turkey, etc
Botany
(70,657 posts)Everytime he opens his mouth he loses more votes.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)He's just willing to say what they are all thinking, but too ashamed to say.
Aviation Pro
(12,246 posts)...the stroke-waiting-to-happen, orange-flavored, walking shitstain.
Fuck and you.
A few more. Go fuck yourself and the Eastern European horse you rode in on you fucking five deferment, 'graduate' of a reform school for rich, spoiled fucks.
Did I mention fuck you, poser?
Fuck you.
RandySF
(59,812 posts)Liberal In Red State
(442 posts)world wide wally
(21,762 posts)We all work hard.
Only most of us don't get a million bucks to get started and then a couple hundred more to bail us out if we fuck up.
Bonhomme Richard
(9,001 posts)MFM008
(19,837 posts)The squirming maggot didn't have to
Greet the blown up pieces of a much loved child
On his return from duty.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)"HOLY SHIT ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID???"
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Another ethnic stereotype The Donald loves to exploit.
She lost a son. She's a private citizen. I'm a big-mouthed liberal and I couldn't have voiced my sorrow on a public stage. Her husband spoke for both of them.
If you watched Lawrence O'Donnell you heard her speak from the heart.
It's impossible to imagine a more vile excuse for a human being than D Trump. Yes, you can bring up horrible characters from history and I'll agree they were awful. But Trump grew up in a free country with every possible advantage and chooses to be a scum-sucking piece of vermin.
I watch this piece of shit just to find out how low he will go.
rocktivity
(44,588 posts)especially when they insist on your sacrificing some of the money you made off THEIR "working very, very hard" in the form of compensation.
rocktivity
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Enoki33
(1,589 posts)and total absorbition with himself. How the hell did he get this far? It's been explained by some as a combination of the conditioning by incessant hate talk on right wing radio, Fox News and voter suppression. Thankfully he is not the genius he thinks himself to be.
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)...to speak!
I really feel like I'm in bizarro land. How is this man even on the ballot for dog catcher? Let alone president?
Note he doesn't mention what he's sacrificed. As for that war memorial (from politicususa.com)
while Trump was on the board to get the memorial built, he blew off most of the meetings, * One official of the Vietnam Commission, who has attended all the meetings, maintains Trump has been to only two or three out of 20 meetings. This was confirmed by another member of the commission. The first time he attended a meeting was to launch the commission, one source says, and the second was when he arrived with a reporter who was profiling him.
As per usual, not an outright lie (like he never was part of the commission) but hardly the truth.
edbermac
(15,952 posts)LuckyLib
(6,822 posts)all the time. He's out of control in the mouth department, and is unable to STFU.
bucolic_frolic
(43,511 posts)If he can be kept talking about perceived insults, he will have less time
to lay the groundwork for actual policy positions. He is a smoldering
wreck at this point. Keep him occupied, these issues are like a baby's
pacifier to him.
ailsagirl
(22,909 posts)He's so clueless to have even responded to that proud statement-- just makes himself look more and more like the
sniveling, pathetic, heartless little SOB he really is.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Can't he ever let anything pass without having to open up that fat pie hole of his? God, he's such a disgusting, selfish pig!
mahina
(17,770 posts)pua ting, you.
What could such a person do now to redeem himself? Apologize for existing, withdraw, and devote his life to easing others' suffering.
Failing that? I don't know.
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DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)His nastiness to the Khans, then the nasty comment about how "she wasn't allowed to speak". It wasn't that at all. She was INVITED to speak and she couldn't, because of her son's picture (reference the O'Donnell interview for that). She is still so utterly grief stricken with this loss, that seeing his picture so big like that was too much for her. SHE was trying to keep her composure.
rurallib
(62,483 posts)how do you think he got rich?
AllyCat
(16,267 posts)to him or he steals it.
Qutzupalotl
(14,344 posts)all sacrificed to his ego.
jg10003
(976 posts)Happened when he went bankrupt. He had to sell his 280 foot yacht.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)"Don Jr wanted to go big game hunting in Africa 4 times last year and I had to tell him no mor than 3",,,,,its hard!
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)That was my favorite part! Why is the media not talking with him about that? (rhetorical)
ICONIC SPEECH!
erpowers
(9,350 posts)This along with everything else he said should disqualify Donald Trump from being President.
ashling
(25,771 posts)The dad did not read from a scrript. Just spoke from the heart.
red dog 1
(27,935 posts)He makes Mitt Romney look like Demosthenes.
Speaking of Demosthenes, he describes Trump perfectly when he said:
"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry, for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit."
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)nruthie
(466 posts)He's a damn nightmare. I just wish I could wake up from it.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)turbinetree
(24,745 posts)bring this up, because this family, the Khans, and the 4685 families in the service, lost more than this dirt bag, he has no clue on to even how to spell sacrifice.
Maybe they should ask this treasonous dirt bag what the number 66 means, maybe the MSM can inform this dirt that Captain Khan was the 66th American to die based on a god damn lie, but he followed the commander-n-chief, because of the Constitution and not some flag.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/hsmkhan.htm
Hey, drumpster, I lost friends in Vietnam, they couldn't vote, because they were under the age of 21, do you remember that little bit of information, while you were getting your five draft deferments, about the bunion infection between your ears.
And while were at it, lets remind the republicans like the Ryan's. and the McConnell's of that party you went to that farse convention, you own this guy and his product--------------think about it, no matter how you try to spin it------------he is the face of your party
raven mad
(4,940 posts)And I won't try.
ck4829
(35,096 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)Did he think his hotels and casinos would build themselves? Or that computer terminals would check in guests or robots clean the rooms?
Businesses hire people because they need them to make more money, and the employee makes more money for the company than they are paid or the company wouldn't make a profit.