John McCain: You Know Nothing, Donald Trump
Welcome back to #TrumpWatch, where Tablet presents the daily low-lights of Donald Trump’s attempt to use the dark forces of bigotry to become President of the United States. Today, let’s turn our attention to this public confrontation between the parents of a fallen, Muslim American soldier, and the Republican nominee, who has taken issue with the couple’s appearance at last week’s Democratic National Convention. The conflict has catapulted Trump into the spotlight once again, where he wants to be, no matter how much bird shit has accumulated on top of it.
The story, in short, is this: Khizr and Ghazala Khan, bereaved parents of Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004, spoke at the DNC as “patriotic American Muslims with undivided loyalty to our country” who, “like many immigrants, came to this country empty-handed.” Of their son, a fallen soldier who posthumously received a Bronze Star and Purple Heart, Mr. Khan, a lawyer, said: “If it were up to Donald Trump, he never would have been in America.” Trump, he said, had “sacrificed nothing.”
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