Although it’s been less than a week since Mr. Kahn stood on the stage and waived his pocket copy of the US Constitution at Trump, it’s been headline news every day since.
Trump totally screwed up in responding to this by disrespecting a soldier’s sacrifice for his country, and failing to feel the pain his parents felt.
i’m sure there isn’t a person who isn’t aware of the backstory here, but here’s a link if you want to catch up with the matte.
Is this likely to be a tipping point for many people previously undecided voters? I can’t see how this won’t resonate deeply with veterans, blue and red alike. Certainly any gold star parent isn’t interested in hearing about how Trump “sacrificed” by building an empire.
It depends on what you mean by survive. If you mean this is the tipping point that will cause him to lose some undecided voters and then the general election, then you might be correct. We won’t find out, however, until November 9th. If you mean that he will lose so much support that he has to pull out of the election, I don’t see that happening. He has way to many supporters that will continue to support him no matter what he says or does, even “shooting a man on 5th Avenue” as Trump himself said.
This along with being a useful idiot for Putin will not drive current Trump supporters and undecideds to Hillary’s camp in any significant number. Best we can hope for is that it will compel those finally turned off by Trump’s buffoonery to simply stay home on election day.
GOP is giving lame repudiations which are mainly “We love soldiers!” statements that completely fail to address their presidential nominee or his statements.
Trump supporters are so rabidly anti-Clinton that they would defend Trump literally pissing on the US flag and selling the Lincoln Memorial to the Kremlin at this point.
I’m surprised this dickhead didn’t mention Hillary’s lack of a flag lapel pin. Using the DNC to make a political point is disgraceful? Isn’t that sort of the idea of a political convention?
Not to worry, Mr. Kahn! That nice Mr. Trump only means a TEMPORARY ban on people who share your faith entering the country. And surely you don’t mind surveillance of your place of worship, do you?
Trump’s Khan-gaffe will hurt him but only with people with multiple brain cells, the sort that don’t vote for him anyway.
I’m going to have to disagree with you about undecided voters. I think this could seriously push a good chunk of them into the Hillary camp, even if they have to do it holding their nose. And given his inability to STFU on the topic I see this getting much worse for him before it gets better.
It will continue to be a story until he does or says something else highly offensive or until Assange dumps more emails in an attempt to damage Clinton.
“You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” — Joseph Nye Welch, to Joseph McCarty, June 9, 1954, after McCarthy accused the Army of being Red.
Of course, we know good and well Trump has no decency, so the most this will do is convince the undecideds to stay home, as others in this thread have said.
Or, to pick a slogan from a more appropriate era: “In your guts, you know he’s nuts.” (Coined by the Johnson campaign, parodying the “In your heart, you know he’s right.” used by the Goldwater campaign.)
I’d be interested in your personal reaction to Trump’s handling of this issue. Aside from quoting headlines… how do you, as a Trump supporter, explain/defend/excuse Trump’s remarks. Are you/were you offended? Do you think his comments are no big deal, and the public’s reaction amounts to a tempest in a teapot? I’m really curious.
There are some other Trump supporters here, too, and I pose the same question to them.
It looks like Trump has found himself in agreement with the Islamic State. It seems they both hold the Khan family in contempt. The new issue of Dabiq Magazine includes a photo of Humayun Khan’s gravestone at Arlington National Cemetery with a caption which reads, “Beware of dying as an apostate” (pg. 27).
I’m pointing out to you that, as is the case, there’s a stark double standard in the media, and you’re deluding yourself if you actually think that this is confined to "one op ed columnist. The media has no problems whatsoever in doing the same things Trump does or attacking those on the right, regardless of who they are or the situation, though they hate him when he does.
As it is, Khan attacked Trump first with the whole “constitution” thing (I doubt Khan actually carries a copy around with him lol). He isn’t a victim, and I’m glad Trump fired back. And if you’ve got the likes of McShame and Grahamnesty rustled, well… You’re probably doing something right.
But you posted two links written by exactly the same guy: Steve Benen, who I wouldn’t know from a hole in the ground, but apparently has something to do with the Rachel Maddow Show.
Actually, let me take that back: you posted two titles of op-eds, and didn’t include the links. Did you do that so that people wouldn’t notice that you’re posting about one partisan opinion writer, so as to leave the impression that there is a broad media conspiracy here?
Again: Mr. Khan criticized Trump, and Trump lashed out against him. Ms. Smith criticized Clinton, and I can’t see that Clinton had any particular response, to say nothing of lashing out against her. The story here is that 99 percent of politicians know not to insult the families of people who were killed serving their country. But Trump doesn’t know that. This isn’t a double standard; this is a matter of, “What the fuck is wrong with Trump?”
Wow. So you’re adopting the Republican view that all this is Mr Khan’s fault. His fault for letting his son serve in the armed forces. His fault for allowing him to die saving the lives of the men serving under him. His fault for attacking Trump for wanting to ban Muslim’s from entering this country. His fault for believing in the US Constitution and what it stands for. Shame on Mr Khan. Did I miss anything?
This is the problem with these issue. Some Republicans are so died in the wool red that they refuse to believe their demagogue has faults. Even when those faults are obvious to the world.
QFT and Omg a Black Conservative, you do need to also deal with that “no sense of decency” that many Republicans are then following if you do not criticize Trump.** Even the Republican leadership did it.**