'I don't regret anything': Trump says he did the right thing in punching back against parents of hero Muslim soldier killed in action: 'They just kept

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[h=1]'I don't regret anything': Trump says he did the right thing in punching back against parents of hero Muslim soldier killed in action: 'They just kept it going and it never stopped!'[/h]

• Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump defended his response to 'vicious' attacks from Khizr and Ghazala Khan
• Their son Humayun Khan died while fighting for the US in Iraq in 2004
• 'I was viciously attacked and all I did was respond to it,' Trump said
• 'It's just one of those things – but no, I don’t regret anything'

By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 00:47, 3 August 2016 | UPDATED: 01:07, 3 August 2016




Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has no second thoughts about the way he pushed back against attacks from the parents of a slain Muslim soldier during the past five days.
'I don't regret anything,' he told WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C.
'I said nice things about the son, and I feel that very strongly,' he said, referring to a statement he issued calling the late U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan a 'hero.'
'But of course I was hit very hard from the stage, and you know, it’s just one of those things. But, no, I don’t regret anything.'



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Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has no regrets about the way he punched back after the Muslim parents of a soldier killed in action clobbered him during the Democratic convention

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Trump has felt widespread condemnation from both Democrats and Republicans who say he should have been more sensitive to the Khans' plight

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Khizr Khan, whose son U.S. Capt. Humayun Khan died in Iraq in 2004, did a weekend media tour castigating Trump, who said he was entitled to respond

Khizr Khan, Capt. Kahn's father, clobbered Trump from the stage of last week's Democratic National Convention, and the did a media tour condemning him for his policy proposals touching on Muslims.
The Khans emigrated to America from Pakistan. Capt. Khan was killed in action in 2004.
In an interview on the Fox News Channel's 'O'Reilly Factor,' Trump laid it on even thicker.
'I was viciously attacked on the stage of the DNC by Mr. Kahn and I responded to that vicious attack,' Trump said in an interview that aired Tuesday night.
'Am I supposed to not have the right to at least say something back? And I did.'
Trump used similar words over the weekend on Twitter.


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Trump has said for days that he was 'viciously attacked' and had a right to counterpunch


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Trump also disputed Mr. Khan's criticism that the billionaire businessman has 'sacrificed nothing and no one' for his country.
'I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard. I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures,' he said.


.Late Saturday night Trump released his statement calling Humayun Khan 'a hero,' but still pushed back against his father's insults.'While I feel deeply for the loss of his son, Mr. Khan who has never met me, has no right to stand in front of millions of people and claim I have never read the Constitution, (which is false) and say many other inaccurate things,' said Trump.

Read more:

• Donald Trump interview -- WJLA

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By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 23:00, 2 August 2016 | UPDATED: 04:04, 3 August 2016



Donald Trump succeeded in changing the subject on Tuesday – with a vengeance – as he put to bed his five-day-long battle with the parents of a Muslim killed on active duty by starting a feud within his own party.
Trump told The Washington Post that he isn't ready to support House Speaker Paul Ryan or Arizona Senator John McCain as they fight contentious primary battles to keep their seats in Congress.
In withholding his endorsement from Ryan, who faces a primary election next Tuesday in Wisconsin, Trump said he's 'not quite there yet.'
He praised challenger Paul Nehlen, saying he's running 'a very good campaign.' He remains on the fence deapite 'giving it very serious consideration.'



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COY: Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's not ready to back House Speaker Paul Ryan or Arizona Sen. John McCain in their contentious primary election battles

.CHOPPING BLOCK: Ryan (left) and McCain (right) have been critical of Trump during his five-day feud with the Muslim parents of a military veteran who was killing in action in 2004

THE OTHER MAN: Paul Ryan's challenger is Wisconsin businessman Paul Nehlen


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boy- both trump and hillary-are awful. gonna have to hold my nose and vote for trump though

 

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The truth is Trump did not attack Mr Kahn.

Trump praised him, he said he seems like a nice man,


The attacking came from Mr Kahn

Who viciously heinously for no reason said Trump had sacrifised nothing. Tis was a obnoxious ugly insult , in what could have been a beautiful speech about his sons heroism. And Mr Kahn really insulted most Americans when he said that, because he is saying a parent like Trump who has raised 5 beautiful children, can do that without any sacrifice , that is so sick of Mr Kahn. What about school teachers, what about firefighters, all these people cacrifice daily for America.

So Kahn isd saying if you hsve not lost a child in war then you have sacrifised nothing.

 

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[h=1]Eric Trump: Father's Khan remarks 'blown hugely out of proportion'[/h]By Nick Gass
08/02/16 07:39 AM EDT


Donald Trump's comments about the Gold Star family of a fallen U.S. soldier whose father spoke out against him at last week's Democratic National Convention were "blown hugely out of proportion," the Republican nominee's son Eric Trump said Tuesday.
"I think this is something that was honestly blown hugely out of proportion," Eric Trump told "CBS This Morning" after he was asked whether he believed his father to be in the wrong for his comments and repeated attacks on Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the Pakistani-born Muslim parents of slain Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who died in 2004 while protecting his fellow soldiers in Iraq.
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Eric Trump continued to defend his father on Tuesday, lamenting that "first of all he said the Khan family looked like amazing people in that interview which for whatever reason never wants to get reported."
"He called him a hero on so many different times," the Trump Organization executive vice president said, remarking that unlike Khizr Khan's suggestion that Trump is targeting Muslims for their faith, "this isn't a Muslim thing."
Trump explained, "This is an ISIS thing. And this is also an anti-immigration, anti-Syrian refugee thing coming into the country. He doesn't want to see more Americans dead. My father’s a great patriot. He sees what's happening around the country and quite frankly, he's shaking his head."



Asked earlier whether it is difficult for his father to apologize, Eric Trump called the Manhattan business mogul a "fighter."
"And I think this country needs is a fighter. And he was attacked the other day. And he was attacked viciously," he continued. "And by the way, that's politics. You're going to get attacked."
As far as whether the elder Trump would apologize to the Khans, Eric Trump suggested that he already has by calling their son a "hero," while defending his father's statement to ABC's George Stephanopoulos that he has also sacrificed for the country.
"Listen, I think that's a great question for him. And I think he has by calling him a hero. You know, in terms of the one question, whether he's made a sacrifice, I think my father has," Eric Trump said. "Now, that's certainly not the ultimate sacrifice, the ultimate sacrifice is a soldier dying for this nation and dying to protect the three of us," he said of the other panelists at the table.

 

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Yup....Trump played it right once again. He smelled a fucking rat which this piece of shit father is.





Pat McCaughanAugust 19 at 11:15am ·

Remember this guy? Khizr Kahn and his wife - the "Gold Star" family, who caused such a commotion denouncing Trump for his stand against Muslim immigration at the DNC Convention? Now we learn that not only did the Dems pay actors to fill up seats at their convention, but they paid Khan $25,000 to make that speech. (Which was, by the way, not written by him, but two DNC staffers). Remember the copy of Constitution he held up? (Bought by a staffer two hours before speech). And that's just the tip of the iceberg!.....
FIVE Gold Star families turned down the DNC's request to speak at the convention. Khan's law firm is in debt $1.7 million, and owes back taxes of over $850,000 plus penalties. (Which the IRS has put on hold since his convention speech). In addition, the DNC paid him a bonus of $175,000 for his "media effort." AND...CNN paid him over $100,000 for his interviews.
NOW who's dishonoring his son's memory? Talk about soulless.