Trump
Spokeswoman Blames Obama For Capt. Khan’s Death
The
Iraq War hero was killed in 2004 — five years before Obama took
office.
08/03/2016 01:05 am
ET |
A Donald Trump
spokeswoman Tuesday night opened a new front in the GOP nominee’s
campaign of insults against the parents of a Muslim-American war
hero, this time blaming President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
for the soldier’s death.
“It was under
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement
that probably cost his life,” Trump national spokeswoman Katrina
Pierson said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, referring to
Army Capt. Humayun S.M. Khan.
Khan was killed in
2004 in Iraq, protecting fellow soldiers from a car bomb. You might
recall that Obama did not take office until 2009.
After being blasted
earlier Tuesday by Obama as “unfit” to serve the nation’s
highest office, Trump took to Twitter to lash out in a childish sort
of I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I comeback. Trump has directed insults
at Khan’s parents, Khizr Khan and Ghazala Khan, since they
denounced the candidate at the Democratic National Convention last
week.
During Tuesday’s
exchange on CNN, Blitzer repeatedly asked Pierson if Trump has called
the Khan family to apologize. Repeating comments made earlier in the
day by Trump’s son, Eric, Pierson said Trump apologized by
“honoring the service of the son.”
When Blitzer pressed
her on the issue, Pierson asked, “Just out of curiosity, what
exactly is Mr. Trump supposed to be apologizing for, just so that I’m
clear?”
In a moving speech
last week at the Democratic National Convention, Khizr Khan said
Trump has “sacrificed nothing and no one.” Trump attempted to
defend himself and suggested Ghazala Khan kept quiet during the
convention because of their faith. Ghazala Khan later said that she
didn’t speak because she knew she would lose her composure when the
convention displayed photographs of her son.
“Wasn’t he
disrespectful, though, to the Gold Star family?” Blitzer asked
Pierson.
“Disrespectful by
defending himself?” Pierson responded. “He didn’t say anything
about the son, in fact he honored his service. The only thing he
said, Wolf, is basically, ‘This man knows nothing about me, why is
he criticizing me?’ How is that an attack?”
As for Pierson’s
comment about Obama and Clinton being to blame for Capt. Khan’s
death, Blitzer offered this fact check:
Pierson’s bizarre
statement came a day after Corey Lewandowski, a CNN analyst who was
Trump’s former campaign manager, said that “if Donald Trump were
president, Capt. Khan would still be alive today because we never
would have entered the Iraq War in the first place.”
Editor’s note:
Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial
liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has
repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims ― 1.6 billion members of an
entire religion ― from entering the U.S.
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