Trump's confrontation with Muslim soldier's parents emerges as unexpected flash point

[DonViejo]

By ALEXANDER BURNS, MAGGIE HABERMAN and ASHLEY PARKER New York Times AUGUST 1, 2016 — 5:06AM

Donald Trump reeled Sunday amid a sustained campaign of criticism by the parents of a Muslim American soldier killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq and a rising outcry within his own party over his rough and racially charged dismissal of the couple.

The confrontation between the parents, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, and Trump has emerged as an unexpected and potentially pivotal flash point in the general election. Trump has plainly struggled to respond to the reproach of a military family who lost a child, and he has repeatedly answered the Khan family’s criticism with harsh and defensive rhetoric.

And Trump’s usual political tool kit has appeared to fail him. He earned no reprieve with his complaints that Khizr Khan had been unfair to him or with his repeated attempts to change the subject to Islamic terrorism.

Hillary Clinton reprimanded Trump, saying at a church in Cleveland that Trump had answered the Khan family’s sacrifice with personal disrespect, and with disrespect for U.S. traditions of religious tolerance.

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http://www.startribune.com/trump-s-confrontation-with-muslim-soldier-s-parents-emerges-as-unexpected-flash-point/388787491/

[RapSoDee]

1. #ComradeTrump is now seeking his sixth deferment...

Trump already has 5 deferments from service to America, earning him fabulous status as an elite REPUBLICAN DRAFT DODGER.

Now he claims he is owed a sixth deferment that will exempt him from having to admit he is a mean-spirited hypocritical, lying chickenhawk Republican a-hole who owes apologies to America's POWs, veterans, and their families.

[uponit7771]

2. This is hitting home, the winger hate media is responding negatively to the Khans meaning this story

... has broken into the winger hate media bubble and into the minds of its minions.

They'll eventually blow this one off but not the next 2 or 3 times he does this crap

[JHB]

3. Well, now he's not facing people who want to scoop up...

...his followers after his (expected but never occurring) primary flame-out.

And I daresay this has a little extra significance for Hillary, as fraudulent conservative smear-emails when she was a senator claimed she snubbed gold star mothers. Con Man Don is now doing worse for real.

[madaboutharry]

4. Excellent article.

[unc70]

5. Well, it's a diversion from Putin

The discussions of Putin have subsided with all the focus on the Khans. Deliberate? Who knows, but When Trump needs to change the focus of the press, he does something totally over the top, and the press sheep are sure to follow.

[Cosmocat]

6. That would not be bad news

The Putin thing is FAR more problematic for the country.

But, it is past most of the idiots in this country making sense of.

The Khan's, yeah, the 40% idiots voting for him/jackass republicans, will fight tooth and nail against it.

But, it is something that will be REALLY hard for anyone not in those two categories to accept.