It is quite remarkable that someone like Khan an advocate of Sharia Law gets a
microphone in hand & has the nerve to lecture Trump on the US constitution.
Now he wants to remove himself from the limelight before his warts become known
& revealed his living children did not want to be connected with his public rants
against Trump obviously being used as a Clinton pawn. If you lie with dogs you get fleas.
His partner of empirical findings Obama chimed in that 'Trump is not fit to be president'
if that's not the pot calling the kettle black what is?
I don't follow Muslim customs too much, but maybe these two could exchange 'prayer
rugs' as a gesture of brotherhood if that is one of there customs.
Cindy Sheehan II, just another sequel from the cheap shallow democratic playbook meant to fool the fools
red herring, misdirection, a crock of bullshit
and the media received their marching orders too, doing their lockstep thing
it's sickening to watch them in action
red herring, misdirection, a crock of bullshit
and the media received their marching orders too, doing their lockstep thing
it's sickening to watch them in action
what part of the constitution does our fallen soldier's father think Trump is violating?
can someone cite the "Free and Open Borders" section for me?
do people even know the definition of "citizen" anymore?
isn't national security the primary responsibility of our federal government? (no liberals, it was never intended for our federal government to primarily responsible for redistributing assets as you see fit)
can someone cite the "Free and Open Borders" section for me?
do people even know the definition of "citizen" anymore?
isn't national security the primary responsibility of our federal government? (no liberals, it was never intended for our federal government to primarily responsible for redistributing assets as you see fit)
^^^ And last night when he was asked about it he gave the opposite viewpoint and said he is bound by the constitution and that sharia is incompatible with it. This thread has turned to fail as fast as Trump's campaign, in both directions. Posters said the media wouldn't ask him about sharia. A few hours later they did. Other posters still want to talk about the violent history of Islam. Christianity didn't have such a great past as well and I've got pictures of family graves to prove it.
And here we are with a guy who is obviously disconected from violent extremism, the type of Muslim we need not fear in this country, and all the far righties in here want to post lies that keep him connected to it. And then there's SPAMMY entrenched in his Far Left Fantasyland that says, "Let 'em all in!"
Do I like that this issue is being used to destroy a candidate and that he swims against the current drowning after it? No! I agree with Willie, every word. But this is another test that Trump could have navigated his way through. I'm no politician. But I would have completely turned this shit around. Trump made it 100 times worse. GL coming back from this.
And here we are with a guy who is obviously disconected from violent extremism, the type of Muslim we need not fear in this country, and all the far righties in here want to post lies that keep him connected to it. And then there's SPAMMY entrenched in his Far Left Fantasyland that says, "Let 'em all in!"
Do I like that this issue is being used to destroy a candidate and that he swims against the current drowning after it? No! I agree with Willie, every word. But this is another test that Trump could have navigated his way through. I'm no politician. But I would have completely turned this shit around. Trump made it 100 times worse. GL coming back from this.
HH there are 1 minute clips on youtube but no full. Here is a transcript though from the AC 360 page:
Aired August 2, 2016 - 21:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
[21:00:08] ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST: And good evening. We begin this hour with Khizr Khan, father of Army Captain Humayun Khan. He called out Donald Trump during the Democratic convention. And Donald Trump has not stopped hitting back since even though he's drawn intense fire from virtually all corners including from prominent Republicans. Mr. Khan joins us once again.
Again, I appreciate you being with us. You know, when you entered the political arena as you did during the Democratic National Convention, I assume you knew you would come under some attention yourself from Donald Trump, from the surrogates. I want to get your reaction to some of the things just we've heard in the last day or two from some of the surrogates. Donald Trump, as we talked about in the last hour gave an interview yesterday saying that perhaps the real reason you're angry is because of his policy to keep terrorists out of the country.
Somehow I assume implying or suggesting directly that you wouldn't mind having terrorists in the country. You responded to that in our last broadcast. But we also just heard from a -- one of Donald Trump's surrogates who is I think a liaison to veterans. And I want to make sure I get the quote exactly right that he said. Actually, I don't have it right now but I will get it.
Earlier Donald Trump's son Eric was asked about whether his father would be willing to apologize to you and he seemed to imply that his father had apologized to you. You say that's not important to you, though.
KHIZR KHAN, FATHER OF FALLEN MUSLIM-AMERICAN SOLDIER: Not at all, really. What is important to me now is that end this back and forth, back and forth that had been lack of caliber on the other side. Just imagine and I want to indulge all of his surrogates, after we made the speech, if Donald Trump would have not taken that cheap shot at the gold star mother, we'd not be having these conversations, these discussions.
Sometime for a candidate for a higher office has to have the capacity to bear with the criticism. If I had exercised my First Amendment rights as Mr. Trump does, as Donald Trump does, again and again and again, as he had been maligning Hillary Clinton, calling her names and other leaders, if he can exercise the freedom of his speech rights, so can I.
But he is the candidate for the highest office, a much larger caliber is needed, tolerance, patience. When a person becomes Commander-in- Chief, president, you are president and Commander-in-Chief of everybody that has supported you and that has not supported you.
COOPER: Let me ask you, just yesterday an official adviser on Veteran's Affairs just the guy who was referencing before and the Trump campaign Al Baldasaro tweeted out this. He said, he tweeted out a link to a blog post which essentially accuses you of being a Muslim brotherhood agent who wants to advance Sharia Law in the United States adding that you used your son as a political pawn. I want you to be able to respond to that.
KHAN: Yeah. And I hope his surrogates are listening so they can take note of it what I'm about to say. I have no concern, I have no link, I have never been of that thought of that. I assure you I am an educated person. There is and I hope that other not so thoughtful Republican leaders are listening, there is constitutional amendment in the constitution of United States and that is called equal protection of law under 14th Amendment. Sharia Law as we have titled, there is no such thing as Sharia Law.
These are laws of various Muslim countries which are hodgepodge of British laws, French laws, Portuguese laws. In there, there is tremendous discrimination of genders which disqualifies them under the constitution of the United States, cannot be implemented, cannot be brought. How can I be a person that has read this, I preach that, that I do not stand for any Sharia Law because there is no such thing.
COOPER: Let me also ask you something else we he heard from the Trump campaign just over the last two days. Yesterday I talked to a former admiral, rear admiral who is supporting Donald Trump as one of his advisers, who suggested -- who sort of turned the subject from should Donald Trump apologize to the rules of engagement for troops in Iraq, implying somehow that the rules of engagement were so restrictive that they played a role in your son's killing, something else that another Trump spokesman, Katrina Pierson also said today on CNN.
[21:05:15] We have the sound bite from her today. Let's listen to what she says.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KATRINA PIERSON, TRUMP'S SPOKESPERSON: .. I don't understand. But surely you can understand the confusion considering how Donald Trump never voted for the Iraq War. Hillary Clinton did. And then she didn't support the troops to have what they need. It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost his life.
So I don't understand why it's so hard to understand, why Donald Trump was confused about why he was being held responsible for something he had nothing to do with, while Hillary Clinton had everything to do with.
WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Katrina Pierson as usual ...
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: Pierson is clearly either confused about her or simply ignorant of is that your son was killed in 2004, Donald Trump -- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were not the president and secretary of state in 2004. But I just wanted to give the other respond.
KHAN: Do I need to say anything? Lack of understanding, lack of factual correctness, it's just nothing but political vote pandering. They are trying to create this fear in people's mind. They have come up with this terms and these terminology that they continue to talk about without really knowing the facts about what they are talking.
I want to put a footnote in front, I received information from where my website was, it is down now. This is the maliciousness and Donald Trump should say to his surrogates that no more, no more harm, no more ugliness. I received the call from the host of the website saying that we are receiving tremendous amount of hits and especially on certain pages of your website. I have a three-page small website and there is a risk that somebody will damage it, somebody may hack it. I asked them what do you suggest. They said under such circumstances, we normally keep it offline when this madness will go away, we will bring it back. I asked them to do that.
To which I began to then receive e-mails and calls why your website is down, why your website is down. This is the ugliness of this discourse. There could be some civility in this discourse. It is a political discourse, of course. There could be some discussion of policy and all that instead of personal ugliness.
So I am not engaging anymore because I see no hope, I do see hope where the people who are thinking to vote for this candidate, I think it is plenty clear, his surrogates will not admit, it's plenty clear to the world that this person is not fit for the office he's seeking. He wants to do everything, I will do it by myself, I will do it in democracy, you cannot do this. That is against the basic principle of democracy.
Therefore, my comments on that is that I really do not want to put myself and my son, my dignified son, through this mud slinging process and lack of decency, of conversation, is just amazing. I would again appeal to his surrogates that please show some decency. Refrain from what you attempted out of anger and out of this ugly partisanness.
COOPER: So, Mr. Khan, I appreciate you talking with us tonight. My condolences obviously to you and your family and thank you for taking the time this evening. Appreciate it. We're going to take ...
KHAN: Thank you very much.
Aired August 2, 2016 - 21:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
[21:00:08] ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST: And good evening. We begin this hour with Khizr Khan, father of Army Captain Humayun Khan. He called out Donald Trump during the Democratic convention. And Donald Trump has not stopped hitting back since even though he's drawn intense fire from virtually all corners including from prominent Republicans. Mr. Khan joins us once again.
Again, I appreciate you being with us. You know, when you entered the political arena as you did during the Democratic National Convention, I assume you knew you would come under some attention yourself from Donald Trump, from the surrogates. I want to get your reaction to some of the things just we've heard in the last day or two from some of the surrogates. Donald Trump, as we talked about in the last hour gave an interview yesterday saying that perhaps the real reason you're angry is because of his policy to keep terrorists out of the country.
Somehow I assume implying or suggesting directly that you wouldn't mind having terrorists in the country. You responded to that in our last broadcast. But we also just heard from a -- one of Donald Trump's surrogates who is I think a liaison to veterans. And I want to make sure I get the quote exactly right that he said. Actually, I don't have it right now but I will get it.
Earlier Donald Trump's son Eric was asked about whether his father would be willing to apologize to you and he seemed to imply that his father had apologized to you. You say that's not important to you, though.
KHIZR KHAN, FATHER OF FALLEN MUSLIM-AMERICAN SOLDIER: Not at all, really. What is important to me now is that end this back and forth, back and forth that had been lack of caliber on the other side. Just imagine and I want to indulge all of his surrogates, after we made the speech, if Donald Trump would have not taken that cheap shot at the gold star mother, we'd not be having these conversations, these discussions.
Sometime for a candidate for a higher office has to have the capacity to bear with the criticism. If I had exercised my First Amendment rights as Mr. Trump does, as Donald Trump does, again and again and again, as he had been maligning Hillary Clinton, calling her names and other leaders, if he can exercise the freedom of his speech rights, so can I.
But he is the candidate for the highest office, a much larger caliber is needed, tolerance, patience. When a person becomes Commander-in- Chief, president, you are president and Commander-in-Chief of everybody that has supported you and that has not supported you.
COOPER: Let me ask you, just yesterday an official adviser on Veteran's Affairs just the guy who was referencing before and the Trump campaign Al Baldasaro tweeted out this. He said, he tweeted out a link to a blog post which essentially accuses you of being a Muslim brotherhood agent who wants to advance Sharia Law in the United States adding that you used your son as a political pawn. I want you to be able to respond to that.
KHAN: Yeah. And I hope his surrogates are listening so they can take note of it what I'm about to say. I have no concern, I have no link, I have never been of that thought of that. I assure you I am an educated person. There is and I hope that other not so thoughtful Republican leaders are listening, there is constitutional amendment in the constitution of United States and that is called equal protection of law under 14th Amendment. Sharia Law as we have titled, there is no such thing as Sharia Law.
These are laws of various Muslim countries which are hodgepodge of British laws, French laws, Portuguese laws. In there, there is tremendous discrimination of genders which disqualifies them under the constitution of the United States, cannot be implemented, cannot be brought. How can I be a person that has read this, I preach that, that I do not stand for any Sharia Law because there is no such thing.
COOPER: Let me also ask you something else we he heard from the Trump campaign just over the last two days. Yesterday I talked to a former admiral, rear admiral who is supporting Donald Trump as one of his advisers, who suggested -- who sort of turned the subject from should Donald Trump apologize to the rules of engagement for troops in Iraq, implying somehow that the rules of engagement were so restrictive that they played a role in your son's killing, something else that another Trump spokesman, Katrina Pierson also said today on CNN.
[21:05:15] We have the sound bite from her today. Let's listen to what she says.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KATRINA PIERSON, TRUMP'S SPOKESPERSON: .. I don't understand. But surely you can understand the confusion considering how Donald Trump never voted for the Iraq War. Hillary Clinton did. And then she didn't support the troops to have what they need. It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost his life.
So I don't understand why it's so hard to understand, why Donald Trump was confused about why he was being held responsible for something he had nothing to do with, while Hillary Clinton had everything to do with.
WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Katrina Pierson as usual ...
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: Pierson is clearly either confused about her or simply ignorant of is that your son was killed in 2004, Donald Trump -- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were not the president and secretary of state in 2004. But I just wanted to give the other respond.
KHAN: Do I need to say anything? Lack of understanding, lack of factual correctness, it's just nothing but political vote pandering. They are trying to create this fear in people's mind. They have come up with this terms and these terminology that they continue to talk about without really knowing the facts about what they are talking.
I want to put a footnote in front, I received information from where my website was, it is down now. This is the maliciousness and Donald Trump should say to his surrogates that no more, no more harm, no more ugliness. I received the call from the host of the website saying that we are receiving tremendous amount of hits and especially on certain pages of your website. I have a three-page small website and there is a risk that somebody will damage it, somebody may hack it. I asked them what do you suggest. They said under such circumstances, we normally keep it offline when this madness will go away, we will bring it back. I asked them to do that.
To which I began to then receive e-mails and calls why your website is down, why your website is down. This is the ugliness of this discourse. There could be some civility in this discourse. It is a political discourse, of course. There could be some discussion of policy and all that instead of personal ugliness.
So I am not engaging anymore because I see no hope, I do see hope where the people who are thinking to vote for this candidate, I think it is plenty clear, his surrogates will not admit, it's plenty clear to the world that this person is not fit for the office he's seeking. He wants to do everything, I will do it by myself, I will do it in democracy, you cannot do this. That is against the basic principle of democracy.
Therefore, my comments on that is that I really do not want to put myself and my son, my dignified son, through this mud slinging process and lack of decency, of conversation, is just amazing. I would again appeal to his surrogates that please show some decency. Refrain from what you attempted out of anger and out of this ugly partisanness.
COOPER: So, Mr. Khan, I appreciate you talking with us tonight. My condolences obviously to you and your family and thank you for taking the time this evening. Appreciate it. We're going to take ...
KHAN: Thank you very much.
So am I. And I get Shit from Left and Right in here. Now I won't use the cliche, "it must mean I'm doing something right." But I know one thing. They are here and there are a lot of them. Our Western values are better than theirs.
There is no doubt in my mind some Muslims have come here with bad intentions and completely transformed while they were here, and abandoned their malicious intent. Now I can't show them to you but I know in the end our modern, civilized way of life will win out.
But we win by strengthening our ties to moderate Muslim nations and reaching out to moderate Muslims who are already here to join us in the fight to excise the tumorous cells who espouse the totalitarian ideology that is incompatible with civilization, and our constitution. Not by staining Muslims who love America.
We learn to use strict screening, and that means until we catch up on the learning curve we may have to freeze immigration for a time. This is not prejudice, this is pure protection and the recognition that we live in a dangerous world. We don't welcome murderers. And we encourage enslaved peoples in Muslim nations not to flee here for freedom, but to fight for the freedoms we have against the fundamentalists who have overun their own countries.
Trump is taking the bait and enabled the media to make him look like a asshole, it's what they live to do
Simple response
1) I've read the constitution, it protects the rights of US Citizens AND does not speak to having open borders.
2) My primary responsibility under the constitution is national security, hence I'm freezing the admittance of Syrian refugees until we can be certain they're properly vetted, only using common sense, especially in view of the worldwide violence
3) I did not approve of the wars to begin with, but Hillary did before she wanted to cut funding to our soldiers.
4) their son served our country, I appreciate all he's done and he's a great american
Not sure how they can turn something so simple into a clusterfuck, he's not very good at political warfare
