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This time, it's what happened at the DNC the night before that set The Donald off. Khizir and Ghazala Khan, Muslim-American parents of a soldier who was killed in the Iraq war, delivered an emotional speech before the convention in which they denounced Trump not only for his anti-immigration policies, but for running what they called a campaign of hatred.
Trump responded in tweets and interviews, asking why (A) husband Khizir spoke and not his wife (she said she was afraid of losing it on national TV, not because of some Muslim edict), (B) why he made "vicious attacks" against the GOP candidate, and (C) why the Democrats used the Khans as plants to make him look bad. See, the Democrats wanted to prove that they could be as jingoistically patriotic as the GOP.
On the subject of sacrifice, the Khans and Trump seem to be on different planets. The Khans believe their son made the "ultimate sacrifice" when he was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq. Trump's idea of sacrifice apparently comes from spending millions of dollars on constructing buildings named for himself, and for being what the GOP likes to call a "job creator". Neither Trump nor his children have ever seen military service.
Trump has been pilloried not only by Clinton and her fellow Democrats, but by other Republicans who are keeping him at arm's length and military families. Despite this, Trump is fortunate that this is August and not November. He's been known to put his foot in his mouth before when it comes to minorities, women and certain religions, but it works for him because that enables him to steal media oxygen from his opponents. That's why he's the nominee.
Maybe in a few days, folks will forget about what Donald Trump said as the news media moves on to something else, and the Khans will become just footnotes in this campaign. Unless Trump gets the urge to say something stupid again.
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