Tuesday, August 02, 2016 6:53:34 PM
Trump: My Position On Keeping Terrorists Out Is What Bothered Khizr Khan
“When you have radical Islamic terrorists probably all over the place, we’re allowing them to come in by the thousands and thousands. And I think that’s what bothered Mr. Khan more than anything else.”
Andrew Kaczynski
posted on Aug. 1, 2016, at 6:25 p.m.
In an interview with a local Ohio television station on Monday, Donald Trump said that Khizr Khan was really bothered by his position on border security — specifically his promise to keep radical Islamic terrorists from entering the country.
“Well, I was very viciously attacked, as you know, on the stage,” Trump told Columbus’s ABC affiliate ABC6, when asked about Khan’s DNC speech. “And I was surprised to see it. And so all I did — I have great honor and great feeling for his son, Mr. Khan’s son. But, and as far as I’m concerned, he’s a hero.”
When the interviewer brought up Trump’s position on border security, Trump said, “It’s a very big subject for me. And border security’s very big. And when you have radical Islamic terrorists probably all over the place, we’re allowing them to come in by the thousands and thousands. And I think that’s what bothered Mr. Khan more than anything else.
“And, you know, I’m not going to change my views on that. We have radical Islamic terrorists coming in that have to be stopped. We’re taking them in by the thousands.”
Trump lashed out at Khan, the father of a soldier who was killed in Iraq, late last week, after Khan delivered a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention, calling Trump out for his rhetoric toward Muslims. In an interview over the weekend, Trump insinuated that Khan’s wife was not allowed to speak onstage because of her Muslim faith.
Trump has faced backlash from Republicans and Democrats over his remarks but has continued to attack the Khans.
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Khizr Khan Smeared As A Terrorist For Speaking Out Against Donald Trump
The man whose son sacrificed his life serving the U.S. military is facing accusations that he’s tied to the Muslim Brotherhood.
By Amanda Terkel
08/01/2016 01:10 pm ET | Updated August 2, 2016
Khizr Khan delivered one of the most moving speeches at the Democratic National Convention [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/democratic-convention/ ], captivating viewers with his story about losing his son, a U.S. service member who died in the Iraq War saving his fellow soldiers.
Khan, who is Muslim American, said that if it were up to Donald Trump [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/donald-trump/ ], he and his family wouldn’t even be allowed in the country.
“Have you ever been to Arlington Cemetery? Go look at the graves of the brave patriots who died defending America,” Khan said. “You will see all faiths, genders and ethnicities. You have sacrificed nothing and no one [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/khizr-khan-donald-trump-muslim_us_579ac886e4b0e2e15eb551c5 ].”
And now, despite his family’s sacrifice to the country, Khan is facing accusations that so many other high-profile Muslim Americans face: that he is unpatriotic and a terrorist.
The most blatant example of these baseless allegations came Sunday from Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant.
Roger Stone
@RogerJStoneJr
Mr. Khan more than an aggrieved father of a Muslim son- he's Muslim Brotherhood agent helping Hillary http://linkis.com/shoebat.com/2016/07/amTCP …
9:40 PM - 31 Jul 2016
[ https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/759941783098761216 (with comments)]
Sandy Rios, the director of government affairs at the American Family Association, also questioned why Khan has not denounced the Muslim Brotherhood on her radio show Friday.
“From my perspective, it is the responsibility of Mr. Khan to distinguish himself from Islamists, from the Muslim Brotherhood [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-questions-khizr-khan-s-patriotism-we-re-not-even-sure-about-you-sir ], whose treatise is to destroy us from within,” Rios said. “If he is a patriotic, loyal, American Muslim, then we want to hear that, that’s great, and we grieve with them over the death of their son. But do not disparage Americans or Donald Trump for having concerns about Muslims in our midst.”
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/rios-khizr-khan ) embedded]
Former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) also went after Khan for not being humble enough in his speech and tried to dampen Khan’s message [ http://www.allenbwest.com/allen/personal-message-muslim-father-whose-son-killed-iraq ] about Muslims also being loyal Americans by pointing to two former Muslim members of the U.S. military who conducted attacks against fellow Americans.
Now, let’s be honest Mr. Khan, those of us with knowledge could just as easily bring attention to SGT Hasan Karim Akbar and Major Nidal Hasan, both Muslims serving in the U.S. Army. Just as you celebrated your Muslim son’s sacrifice, there are others who could give testimony to their loss due to those Muslim soldiers — and I use lower case reference to them (soldiers) because they dishonored the oath and were traitors to our Code of Honor. Your son was not, but that had nothing to do with him being a Muslim: he was an American Soldier.
So, Mr. Khan, since you had such an immense stage, what should you have addressed? You should have taken the time to explain how humbled and thankful you are to live in America. You should have mentioned how honored your son was and the pride you felt knowing he was serving your adopted country. You should have explained to America, and the world, what killed your son … the ideology of Islamism, Islamic fascism.
And along those lines, New Hampshire state Rep. Al Baldasaro (R), Trump’s adviser on veterans issues, said Khan should be ashamed of himself for using his son as a “pawn.” Baldasaro has also called for Hillary Clinton to be executed by a firing squad [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/al-baldasaro-donald-trump-hillary-clinton_us_578fa150e4b07c722ebd2fd1 ].
Rep Al Baldasaro
@Al_Baldasaro
Follow the money trail on Mr Khan. Shame on him for using his Warrior son, who made the Ultimate sacrifice as a pawn https://twitter.com/spartacus4trump/status/760122334124597248 …
9:44 AM - 1 Aug 2016 - Londonderry, NH, United States
[ https://twitter.com/Al_Baldasaro/status/760124044419170305 (with comments)]
These sorts of smears are what many high-profile Muslim Americans face. The two Muslim American members of Congress [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congress-muslim-brotherhood_us_5772b615e4b0352fed3e0372 ], Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Andre Carson (D-Ind.), as well as top Clinton aide Huma Abedin [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/hillary-clinton-huma-abedin_n_1721416.html ], frequently face such accusations.
And the attacks aren’t only targeted at Democrats. Anti-Muslim groups went after Virginia Del. David Ramadan (R) as a “stealth jihadist [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-politicians_us_56699805e4b080eddf5728c8 ]” and a tool of terrorists when he first ran for his seat in 2011.
“It was hurtful to see because it was not true and these people were making it up for political purposes. It was pathetic and it was bigoted [ http://www.davidramadan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ramadan-Makes-History-in-VA1.pdf ],” said Ramadan ? who received endorsements from top Republican figures ? after his election. “But I have a tough skin, so I dealt with it.”
And in 2011, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) ? who is now a Trump supporter ? stood up for Sohail Mohammed, a Muslim American man he nominated for a seat on the New Jersey Superior Court of Passaic County. Conservative writers called Mohammed “a longtime mouthpiece for radical Islamists [ http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/christie_nominee_would_be_supe.html ]” and charged [ http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/05/01/474347/pipes-emerson-national-review-islamophobia/ ] Christie with being “in bed with the enemy [ http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/01/20/139724/christie-muslim-judge/ ].”
Trump and his campaign have continued to attack the Khan family. He implied that the reason that Khan’s mother didn’t speak during the convention was because she wasn’t allowed to.
“If you look at his wife, she was standing there,” Trump told ABC News on Saturday. “She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed [ http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story?id=41015051 ] to have anything to say. You tell me.” Ghazala Khan responded in a Washington Post op-ed, however, saying the reason she didn’t speak was because she was too overcome by grief [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ghazala-khan-donald-trump-criticized-my-silence-he-knows-nothing-about-true-sacrifice/2016/07/31/c46e52ec-571c-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html ].
I cannot walk into a room with pictures of Humayun. For all these years, I haven’t been able to clean the closet where his things are — I had to ask my daughter-in-law to do it. Walking onto the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself. What mother could? Donald Trump has children whom he loves. Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?
Donald Trump said that maybe I wasn’t allowed to say anything. That is not true. My husband asked me if I wanted to speak, but I told him I could not. My religion teaches me that all human beings are equal in God’s eyes. Husband and wife are part of each other; you should love and respect each other so you can take care of the family.
Since then, the Trump campaign has tried to spin away from the Khans’ message and on to the topic of terrorism.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Captain Khan, killed 12 years ago, was a hero, but this is about RADICAL ISLAMIC TERROR and the weakness of our "leaders" to eradicate it!
7:57 AM - 31 Jul 2016 - New Jersey, USA, United States
[ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/759734698415312897 (with comments)]
Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, also tried this tactic on CNN, but host Brian Stelter called him out for ignoring the main issue.
MILLER: He praised Mr. Khan. But again, Brian, let’s get back to what’s going on here. The fact is that this is about radical Islamic terrorism and what we have to do as a country to make sure that our borders are safe and to make sure that we’re screening people who are coming into this country. That’s the larger debate that’s going on here. [...]
STELTER: You keep mentioning radical Islamic terrorism as if that’s somehow linked to Mr. Khan. Why do you keep responding that way when I mention him?
MILLER: Because that’s the broader debate that we’re having. The broader debate that we’re having is about the screening and the vetting that we’re having for people who are coming into this country ?
STELTER: But that has nothing to do with this family, with this Muslim American family.
Republican leaders, such as House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), have distanced themselves from Trump’s remarks but are still standing by his candidacy [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-paul-ryan-donald-trump_us_579e61efe4b08a8e8b5e6e61 ].
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-violence_us_56e1f16fe4b0b25c91815913 ] and is a serial liar [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-911_565b1950e4b08e945feb7326 ], rampant xenophobe [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/9-outrageous-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-latinos_55e483a1e4b0c818f618904b ], racist [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racist-examples_us_56d47177e4b03260bf777e83 ], misogynist [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/18-real-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-women_us_55d356a8e4b07addcb442023 ] and birther [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-birther_56022a33e4b00310edf92f7a ] 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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Donald Trump’s Draft Deferments: Four for College, One for Bad Feet
Donald J. Trump, center, as a high school senior in 1964 at the New York Military Academy.
Credit New York Military Academy
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Donald Trump's Draft Experience
Mr. Trump’s public statements about what kept him out of serving in Vietnam sometimes conflict with his Selective Service records.
By STEVE EDER and TURNER COWLES on Publish Date August 1, 2016.
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Donald Trump’s Selective Service Records
For many years, Donald J. Trump, asserted that it was “ultimately” a high draft lottery number that kept him out of the Vietnam War, rather than a medical condition. But his Selective Service records, obtained from the National Archives, suggest otherwise. He had been medically exempted for more than a year when the draft lottery commenced in December 1969, well before he received what he has described as his “phenomenal” draft number. The Times has created a composite image from scans of the document from the National Archives.
AUG. 1, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/01/us/politics/trump-record.html
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Donald Trump’s Registration Card
After his 18th birthday in June 1964, Donald J. Trump registered with the Selective Service, as did all men his age. It was the summer after his graduation from New York Military Academy and Mr. Trump recalled filling out his papers with his father, Fred Trump, at the local draft office on Jamaica Avenue in Queens.
AUG. 1, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/01/us/politics/trump-draft-card.html
By STEVE EDER and DAVE PHILIPPS
AUG. 1, 2016
Back in 1968, at the age of 22, Donald J. Trump [ http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/donald-trump-on-the-issues.html ] seemed the picture of health.
He stood 6 feet 2 inches with an athletic build; had played football, tennis and squash; and was taking up golf. His medical history was unblemished, aside from a routine appendectomy when he was 10.
But after he graduated from college in the spring of 1968, making him eligible to be drafted and sent to Vietnam, he received a diagnosis that would change his path: bone spurs in his heels.
The diagnosis resulted in a coveted 1-Y medical deferment that fall, exempting him from military service as the United States was undertaking huge troop deployments to Southeast Asia, inducting about 300,000 men into the military that year.
The deferment was one of five Mr. Trump received during Vietnam. The others were for education.
His experience during the era is drawing new scrutiny after the Muslim American parents [ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/us/politics/donald-trump-khizr-khan-wife-ghazala.html ] of a soldier who was killed in Iraq publicly questioned whether Mr. Trump had ever sacrificed for his country. In an emotional speech [ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/us/elections/khizr-humayun-khan-speech.html ] at the Democratic National Convention last week, the soldier’s father, Khizr Khan, directly addressed Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, saying, “You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”
Mr. Trump’s public statements about his draft experience sometimes conflict with his Selective Service records, and he is often hazy in recalling details.
In an interview with The New York Times last month, Mr. Trump said the bone spurs had been “temporary” — a “minor” malady that had not had a meaningful impact on him. He said he had visited a doctor who provided him a letter for draft officials, who granted him the medical exemption. He could not remember the doctor’s name.
“I had a doctor that gave me a letter — a very strong letter on the heels,” Mr. Trump said in the interview.
Asked to provide The Times with a copy of the letter, which he had obtained after his fourth student deferment, Mr. Trump said he would have to look for it. A spokeswoman later did not respond to repeated requests for copies of it.
The Selective Service records that remain in the National Archives — many have been discarded — do not specify what medical condition exempted Mr. Trump from military service.
Mr. Trump has described the condition as heel spurs [ http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/heel-spurs-pain-causes-symptoms-treatments ], which are protrusions caused by calcium built up on the heel bone, treated through stretching, orthotics or sometimes surgery.
Mr. Trump said that he could not recall exactly when he was no longer bothered by the spurs, but that he had not had an operation for the problem.
“Over a period of time, it healed up,” he said.
In the 2015 biography “The Truth About Trump,” the author, Michael D’Antonio, described interviewing Mr. Trump, who at one point slipped off a loafer to display a tiny bulge on his heel. And during a news conference last year, Mr. Trump could not recall which heel had been involved, prompting his campaign to release a statement saying it was both.
Mr. Trump, who has hailed his health as “perfection,” said the heel spurs were “not a big problem, but it was enough of a problem.”
“They were spurs,” he said. “You know, it was difficult from the long-term walking standpoint.”
In December, his longtime personal physician, Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, announced [ http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/14/donald-trump-releases-medical-report-calling-his-health-extraordinary/ ] that Mr. Trump had “no significant medical problems” over four decades and that, if elected, he “will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” Dr. Bornstein made no mention of the bone spurs but did note the appendectomy from Mr. Trump’s childhood.
The medical deferment meant that Mr. Trump, who had just completed the undergraduate real estate program at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania, could follow his father into the development business, which he was eager to do.
The story of Mr. Trump’s draft record has been reviewed [ http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2015/jul/21/was-trump-draft-dodger/ ] by other publications, starting in 2011, when The Smoking Gun published [ http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/deferments-helped-trump-dodge-vietnam ] his Selective Service documents. But a Times examination of his history, including interviews with Mr. Trump and experts on the era, revealed new details.
For many years, Mr. Trump, 70, has also asserted that it was “ultimately” the luck of a high draft lottery number — rather than the medical deferment — that kept him out of the war.
But his Selective Service records, obtained from the National Archives, suggest otherwise. Mr. Trump had been medically exempted for more than a year when the draft lottery began in December 1969, well before he received what he has described as his “phenomenal” draft number.
Because of his medical exemption, his lottery number would have been irrelevant, said Richard Flahavan, a spokesman for the Selective Service System, who has worked for the agency for three decades.
“He was already classified and determined not to be subject to the draft under the conditions in place at the time,” Mr. Flahavan said.
In a 2011 television interview, Mr. Trump described watching the draft lottery as a college student and learning then that he would not be drafted.
“I’ll never forget; that was an amazing period of time in my life,” he said in the interview, on Fox 5 New York. “I was going to the Wharton School of Finance, and I was watching as they did the draft numbers, and I got a very, very high number.”
But Mr. Trump had graduated from Wharton 18 months before the lottery — the first in the United States in 27 years — was held.
The fact that a candidate seeking the presidency received military deferments or otherwise avoided fighting in Vietnam is not unusual. Voters have shown themselves willing to look past such controversies, electing George W. Bush [ https://web.archive.org/web/20000619121358/www.boston.com/news/politics/campaign2000/news/One_year_gap_in_Bush_s_Guard_duty+.shtml ], who served stateside in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam era, and Bill Clinton [ http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/16/opinion/bill-clinton-s-vietnam-test-cont-d.html ], who wrote to an Army R.O.T.C. officer in 1969 thanking him for “saving me from the draft.”
Mr. Trump likened his history to that of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. [ http://web.archive.org/web/20080903001303/http://www.courant.com/news/politics/ats-ap-cvn-biden-vietnamaug31,0,2934547.story ] and other prominent politicians, who also received several deferments. Mr. Trump said he had strongly opposed United States involvement in Vietnam.
“I thought it was ridiculous,” he said. “I thought it was another deal where politicians got us into a war where we shouldn’t have been in. And I felt that very strongly from Day 1.”
Even if his views on Vietnam are broadly shared today, both his record and his statements on the war have proved fraught for Mr. Trump during his campaign. Last summer, he faced a backlash when he declared that John McCain, the Republican senator who had been a prisoner of war during Vietnam, was “not a war hero,” explaining, “I like people who weren’t captured.” Then a series of audio clips surfaced from the 1990s, including one in which Mr. Trump told Howard Stern [ https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-isnt-into-anal-melania-never-poops-and-other-things-he ], the radio show host, that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases while dating “is my personal Vietnam.”
Mr. Trump has acknowledged [ http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-feels-guilty-serving-vietnam/story?id=35523207 ] feeling somewhat “guilty” for not serving in Vietnam and has stressed that if he had been called, he would have gone.
After his 18th birthday, in June 1964, Mr. Trump registered with the Selective Service System, as all men his age did. It was the summer after his graduation from the New York Military Academy, and Mr. Trump recalled filling out his papers with his father, Fred Trump, at the local draft office on Jamaica Avenue in Queens.
The next month, Mr. Trump received the first of four education deferments as he worked his way through his undergraduate studies, first at Fordham, in the Bronx, and then as a transfer student in the real estate program at the Wharton School, in Philadelphia.
Mr. Trump addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Charlotte, N.C., last week.
Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times
He received subsequent student deferments during his sophomore, junior and senior years.
At Fordham, Mr. Trump commuted from his parents’ home in Queens and played squash, football and tennis. He remembered Fordham for its “good sports.”
At Wharton, Mr. Trump began preparing in earnest for his career in real estate by buying and selling fixer-upper townhouses in Pennsylvania and driving home to New York on weekends to work for his father.
During the Wharton years, he said, he had less time for sports but stayed physically active, playing pickup golf at public courses near campus.
At Penn and other universities, Vietnam dominated discussions. Mr. Trump said Wharton, with its business focus, had been somewhat different. Although he “hated the concept of the war,” he said, he did not speak out against it.
“I was never a fan of the Vietnam War,” he said. “But I was never at the protest level, either, because I had other things to do.”
As Mr. Trump’s graduation neared, the fighting in Vietnam was intensifying. The Tet offensive in January 1968 had left thousands of American troops dead or wounded, with battles continuing into the spring.
On the day of Mr. Trump’s graduation, 40 Americans were killed in Vietnam. The Pentagon was preparing to call up more troops.
With his schooling behind him, there would have been little to prevent someone in Mr. Trump’s situation from being drafted, if not for the diagnosis of his bone spurs.
“If you didn’t have a basis to be exempt or postponed, you would have been ordered for induction,” said Mr. Flahavan of the Selective Service.
Many men of Mr. Trump’s age were looking for ways to avoid the war, said Charles Freehof, a draft counselor at Brooklyn College at the time, noting that getting a letter from a physician was a particularly effective option.
“We had very little trouble with people coming back saying, ‘They wouldn’t accept my doctor’s note,’” Mr. Freehof said.
Mr. Trump had a 1-Y classification, which was considered a temporary exemption. But in practice, only a national emergency or an official declaration of war, which the United States avoided during the fighting in Vietnam, would have resulted in his being considered for service.
Neither occurred, and Mr. Trump remained 1-Y until 1972, when his status changed to 4-F, permanently disqualifying him.
“For all practical purposes, once you got the 1-Y, you were free and clear of vulnerability for the draft, even in the case of the lottery,” Mr. Flahavan said.
Still, Mr. Trump, in the interviews, said he believed he could have been subject to another physical exam to check on his bone spurs, had his draft number been called. “I would have had to go eventually because that was a minor medical — it was called ‘minor medical,’” he said.
But the publicly available draft records of Mr. Trump include the letters “DISQ” next to his exam date, with no notation indicating that he would be re-examined.
Since Mr. Khan publicly addressed him in the Democratic convention speech last week, Mr. Trump has been pressed about his sacrifice, including by George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.
“I think I’ve made a lot of sacrifices,” Mr. Trump said to Mr. Stephanopoulos. “I work very, very hard. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I’ve had tremendous success. I think I’ve done a lot.”
Kitty Bennett contributed research.
© 2016 The New York Times Company
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Surprise! Latest Fox News Benghazi Claim Is Also False
08/02/2016 Updated August 2, 2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fox-news-patricia-smith-benghazi-speech_us_57a00e4de4b08a8e8b5f37c9 [with comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-39aB1jW_uk [embedded; comments disabled]
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Wrong: Fox News anchor says networks covered Khizr Khan but skipped Patricia Smith
"Nobody covered" the remarks of Patricia Smith, the mother of a Benghazi victim, "live, but almost everybody covered Khizir Khan's, Mr. Khan's remarks live."
In comment on TV – Monday, August 1, 2016
August 1st, 2016
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/aug/01/brian-kilmeade/brian-kilmeade-says-news-networks-were-biased-agai/ [with embedded video]
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Turn On, Tune In, Feel Good | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS
Published on Aug 1, 2016 by Full Frontal with Samantha Bee [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w/videos ]
Optimism is the most dangerous drug known to man and the DNC dealt it to us all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJHdfzZ5rU [with comments]
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“When you have radical Islamic terrorists probably all over the place, we’re allowing them to come in by the thousands and thousands. And I think that’s what bothered Mr. Khan more than anything else.”
Andrew Kaczynski
posted on Aug. 1, 2016, at 6:25 p.m.
In an interview with a local Ohio television station on Monday, Donald Trump said that Khizr Khan was really bothered by his position on border security — specifically his promise to keep radical Islamic terrorists from entering the country.
“Well, I was very viciously attacked, as you know, on the stage,” Trump told Columbus’s ABC affiliate ABC6, when asked about Khan’s DNC speech. “And I was surprised to see it. And so all I did — I have great honor and great feeling for his son, Mr. Khan’s son. But, and as far as I’m concerned, he’s a hero.”
When the interviewer brought up Trump’s position on border security, Trump said, “It’s a very big subject for me. And border security’s very big. And when you have radical Islamic terrorists probably all over the place, we’re allowing them to come in by the thousands and thousands. And I think that’s what bothered Mr. Khan more than anything else.
“And, you know, I’m not going to change my views on that. We have radical Islamic terrorists coming in that have to be stopped. We’re taking them in by the thousands.”
Trump lashed out at Khan, the father of a soldier who was killed in Iraq, late last week, after Khan delivered a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention, calling Trump out for his rhetoric toward Muslims. In an interview over the weekend, Trump insinuated that Khan’s wife was not allowed to speak onstage because of her Muslim faith.
Trump has faced backlash from Republicans and Democrats over his remarks but has continued to attack the Khans.
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Khizr Khan Smeared As A Terrorist For Speaking Out Against Donald Trump
The man whose son sacrificed his life serving the U.S. military is facing accusations that he’s tied to the Muslim Brotherhood.
By Amanda Terkel
08/01/2016 01:10 pm ET | Updated August 2, 2016
Khizr Khan delivered one of the most moving speeches at the Democratic National Convention [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/democratic-convention/ ], captivating viewers with his story about losing his son, a U.S. service member who died in the Iraq War saving his fellow soldiers.
Khan, who is Muslim American, said that if it were up to Donald Trump [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/donald-trump/ ], he and his family wouldn’t even be allowed in the country.
“Have you ever been to Arlington Cemetery? Go look at the graves of the brave patriots who died defending America,” Khan said. “You will see all faiths, genders and ethnicities. You have sacrificed nothing and no one [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/khizr-khan-donald-trump-muslim_us_579ac886e4b0e2e15eb551c5 ].”
And now, despite his family’s sacrifice to the country, Khan is facing accusations that so many other high-profile Muslim Americans face: that he is unpatriotic and a terrorist.
The most blatant example of these baseless allegations came Sunday from Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant.
Roger Stone
@RogerJStoneJr
Mr. Khan more than an aggrieved father of a Muslim son- he's Muslim Brotherhood agent helping Hillary http://linkis.com/shoebat.com/2016/07/amTCP …
9:40 PM - 31 Jul 2016
[ https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/759941783098761216 (with comments)]
Sandy Rios, the director of government affairs at the American Family Association, also questioned why Khan has not denounced the Muslim Brotherhood on her radio show Friday.
“From my perspective, it is the responsibility of Mr. Khan to distinguish himself from Islamists, from the Muslim Brotherhood [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-questions-khizr-khan-s-patriotism-we-re-not-even-sure-about-you-sir ], whose treatise is to destroy us from within,” Rios said. “If he is a patriotic, loyal, American Muslim, then we want to hear that, that’s great, and we grieve with them over the death of their son. But do not disparage Americans or Donald Trump for having concerns about Muslims in our midst.”
[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/rios-khizr-khan ) embedded]
Former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) also went after Khan for not being humble enough in his speech and tried to dampen Khan’s message [ http://www.allenbwest.com/allen/personal-message-muslim-father-whose-son-killed-iraq ] about Muslims also being loyal Americans by pointing to two former Muslim members of the U.S. military who conducted attacks against fellow Americans.
Now, let’s be honest Mr. Khan, those of us with knowledge could just as easily bring attention to SGT Hasan Karim Akbar and Major Nidal Hasan, both Muslims serving in the U.S. Army. Just as you celebrated your Muslim son’s sacrifice, there are others who could give testimony to their loss due to those Muslim soldiers — and I use lower case reference to them (soldiers) because they dishonored the oath and were traitors to our Code of Honor. Your son was not, but that had nothing to do with him being a Muslim: he was an American Soldier.
So, Mr. Khan, since you had such an immense stage, what should you have addressed? You should have taken the time to explain how humbled and thankful you are to live in America. You should have mentioned how honored your son was and the pride you felt knowing he was serving your adopted country. You should have explained to America, and the world, what killed your son … the ideology of Islamism, Islamic fascism.
And along those lines, New Hampshire state Rep. Al Baldasaro (R), Trump’s adviser on veterans issues, said Khan should be ashamed of himself for using his son as a “pawn.” Baldasaro has also called for Hillary Clinton to be executed by a firing squad [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/al-baldasaro-donald-trump-hillary-clinton_us_578fa150e4b07c722ebd2fd1 ].
Rep Al Baldasaro
@Al_Baldasaro
Follow the money trail on Mr Khan. Shame on him for using his Warrior son, who made the Ultimate sacrifice as a pawn https://twitter.com/spartacus4trump/status/760122334124597248 …
9:44 AM - 1 Aug 2016 - Londonderry, NH, United States
[ https://twitter.com/Al_Baldasaro/status/760124044419170305 (with comments)]
These sorts of smears are what many high-profile Muslim Americans face. The two Muslim American members of Congress [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congress-muslim-brotherhood_us_5772b615e4b0352fed3e0372 ], Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Andre Carson (D-Ind.), as well as top Clinton aide Huma Abedin [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/hillary-clinton-huma-abedin_n_1721416.html ], frequently face such accusations.
And the attacks aren’t only targeted at Democrats. Anti-Muslim groups went after Virginia Del. David Ramadan (R) as a “stealth jihadist [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-politicians_us_56699805e4b080eddf5728c8 ]” and a tool of terrorists when he first ran for his seat in 2011.
“It was hurtful to see because it was not true and these people were making it up for political purposes. It was pathetic and it was bigoted [ http://www.davidramadan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ramadan-Makes-History-in-VA1.pdf ],” said Ramadan ? who received endorsements from top Republican figures ? after his election. “But I have a tough skin, so I dealt with it.”
And in 2011, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) ? who is now a Trump supporter ? stood up for Sohail Mohammed, a Muslim American man he nominated for a seat on the New Jersey Superior Court of Passaic County. Conservative writers called Mohammed “a longtime mouthpiece for radical Islamists [ http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/02/christie_nominee_would_be_supe.html ]” and charged [ http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/05/01/474347/pipes-emerson-national-review-islamophobia/ ] Christie with being “in bed with the enemy [ http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/01/20/139724/christie-muslim-judge/ ].”
Trump and his campaign have continued to attack the Khan family. He implied that the reason that Khan’s mother didn’t speak during the convention was because she wasn’t allowed to.
“If you look at his wife, she was standing there,” Trump told ABC News on Saturday. “She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed [ http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story?id=41015051 ] to have anything to say. You tell me.” Ghazala Khan responded in a Washington Post op-ed, however, saying the reason she didn’t speak was because she was too overcome by grief [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ghazala-khan-donald-trump-criticized-my-silence-he-knows-nothing-about-true-sacrifice/2016/07/31/c46e52ec-571c-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html ].
I cannot walk into a room with pictures of Humayun. For all these years, I haven’t been able to clean the closet where his things are — I had to ask my daughter-in-law to do it. Walking onto the convention stage, with a huge picture of my son behind me, I could hardly control myself. What mother could? Donald Trump has children whom he loves. Does he really need to wonder why I did not speak?
Donald Trump said that maybe I wasn’t allowed to say anything. That is not true. My husband asked me if I wanted to speak, but I told him I could not. My religion teaches me that all human beings are equal in God’s eyes. Husband and wife are part of each other; you should love and respect each other so you can take care of the family.
Since then, the Trump campaign has tried to spin away from the Khans’ message and on to the topic of terrorism.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Captain Khan, killed 12 years ago, was a hero, but this is about RADICAL ISLAMIC TERROR and the weakness of our "leaders" to eradicate it!
7:57 AM - 31 Jul 2016 - New Jersey, USA, United States
[ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/759734698415312897 (with comments)]
Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, also tried this tactic on CNN, but host Brian Stelter called him out for ignoring the main issue.
MILLER: He praised Mr. Khan. But again, Brian, let’s get back to what’s going on here. The fact is that this is about radical Islamic terrorism and what we have to do as a country to make sure that our borders are safe and to make sure that we’re screening people who are coming into this country. That’s the larger debate that’s going on here. [...]
STELTER: You keep mentioning radical Islamic terrorism as if that’s somehow linked to Mr. Khan. Why do you keep responding that way when I mention him?
MILLER: Because that’s the broader debate that we’re having. The broader debate that we’re having is about the screening and the vetting that we’re having for people who are coming into this country ?
STELTER: But that has nothing to do with this family, with this Muslim American family.
Republican leaders, such as House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), have distanced themselves from Trump’s remarks but are still standing by his candidacy [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-paul-ryan-donald-trump_us_579e61efe4b08a8e8b5e6e61 ].
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-violence_us_56e1f16fe4b0b25c91815913 ] and is a serial liar [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-911_565b1950e4b08e945feb7326 ], rampant xenophobe [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/9-outrageous-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-latinos_55e483a1e4b0c818f618904b ], racist [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racist-examples_us_56d47177e4b03260bf777e83 ], misogynist [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/18-real-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-women_us_55d356a8e4b07addcb442023 ] and birther [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-birther_56022a33e4b00310edf92f7a ] 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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Donald Trump’s Draft Deferments: Four for College, One for Bad Feet
Donald J. Trump, center, as a high school senior in 1964 at the New York Military Academy.
Credit New York Military Academy
Video [embedded]
Donald Trump's Draft Experience
Mr. Trump’s public statements about what kept him out of serving in Vietnam sometimes conflict with his Selective Service records.
By STEVE EDER and TURNER COWLES on Publish Date August 1, 2016.
Watch in Times Video:
http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004562938/donald-trumps-draft-experience.html
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Donald Trump’s Selective Service Records
For many years, Donald J. Trump, asserted that it was “ultimately” a high draft lottery number that kept him out of the Vietnam War, rather than a medical condition. But his Selective Service records, obtained from the National Archives, suggest otherwise. He had been medically exempted for more than a year when the draft lottery commenced in December 1969, well before he received what he has described as his “phenomenal” draft number. The Times has created a composite image from scans of the document from the National Archives.
AUG. 1, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/01/us/politics/trump-record.html
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Donald Trump’s Registration Card
After his 18th birthday in June 1964, Donald J. Trump registered with the Selective Service, as did all men his age. It was the summer after his graduation from New York Military Academy and Mr. Trump recalled filling out his papers with his father, Fred Trump, at the local draft office on Jamaica Avenue in Queens.
AUG. 1, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/01/us/politics/trump-draft-card.html
By STEVE EDER and DAVE PHILIPPS
AUG. 1, 2016
Back in 1968, at the age of 22, Donald J. Trump [ http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/donald-trump-on-the-issues.html ] seemed the picture of health.
He stood 6 feet 2 inches with an athletic build; had played football, tennis and squash; and was taking up golf. His medical history was unblemished, aside from a routine appendectomy when he was 10.
But after he graduated from college in the spring of 1968, making him eligible to be drafted and sent to Vietnam, he received a diagnosis that would change his path: bone spurs in his heels.
The diagnosis resulted in a coveted 1-Y medical deferment that fall, exempting him from military service as the United States was undertaking huge troop deployments to Southeast Asia, inducting about 300,000 men into the military that year.
The deferment was one of five Mr. Trump received during Vietnam. The others were for education.
His experience during the era is drawing new scrutiny after the Muslim American parents [ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/us/politics/donald-trump-khizr-khan-wife-ghazala.html ] of a soldier who was killed in Iraq publicly questioned whether Mr. Trump had ever sacrificed for his country. In an emotional speech [ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/us/elections/khizr-humayun-khan-speech.html ] at the Democratic National Convention last week, the soldier’s father, Khizr Khan, directly addressed Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, saying, “You have sacrificed nothing and no one.”
Mr. Trump’s public statements about his draft experience sometimes conflict with his Selective Service records, and he is often hazy in recalling details.
In an interview with The New York Times last month, Mr. Trump said the bone spurs had been “temporary” — a “minor” malady that had not had a meaningful impact on him. He said he had visited a doctor who provided him a letter for draft officials, who granted him the medical exemption. He could not remember the doctor’s name.
“I had a doctor that gave me a letter — a very strong letter on the heels,” Mr. Trump said in the interview.
Asked to provide The Times with a copy of the letter, which he had obtained after his fourth student deferment, Mr. Trump said he would have to look for it. A spokeswoman later did not respond to repeated requests for copies of it.
The Selective Service records that remain in the National Archives — many have been discarded — do not specify what medical condition exempted Mr. Trump from military service.
Mr. Trump has described the condition as heel spurs [ http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/heel-spurs-pain-causes-symptoms-treatments ], which are protrusions caused by calcium built up on the heel bone, treated through stretching, orthotics or sometimes surgery.
Mr. Trump said that he could not recall exactly when he was no longer bothered by the spurs, but that he had not had an operation for the problem.
“Over a period of time, it healed up,” he said.
In the 2015 biography “The Truth About Trump,” the author, Michael D’Antonio, described interviewing Mr. Trump, who at one point slipped off a loafer to display a tiny bulge on his heel. And during a news conference last year, Mr. Trump could not recall which heel had been involved, prompting his campaign to release a statement saying it was both.
Mr. Trump, who has hailed his health as “perfection,” said the heel spurs were “not a big problem, but it was enough of a problem.”
“They were spurs,” he said. “You know, it was difficult from the long-term walking standpoint.”
In December, his longtime personal physician, Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, announced [ http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/14/donald-trump-releases-medical-report-calling-his-health-extraordinary/ ] that Mr. Trump had “no significant medical problems” over four decades and that, if elected, he “will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” Dr. Bornstein made no mention of the bone spurs but did note the appendectomy from Mr. Trump’s childhood.
The medical deferment meant that Mr. Trump, who had just completed the undergraduate real estate program at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania, could follow his father into the development business, which he was eager to do.
The story of Mr. Trump’s draft record has been reviewed [ http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2015/jul/21/was-trump-draft-dodger/ ] by other publications, starting in 2011, when The Smoking Gun published [ http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/deferments-helped-trump-dodge-vietnam ] his Selective Service documents. But a Times examination of his history, including interviews with Mr. Trump and experts on the era, revealed new details.
For many years, Mr. Trump, 70, has also asserted that it was “ultimately” the luck of a high draft lottery number — rather than the medical deferment — that kept him out of the war.
But his Selective Service records, obtained from the National Archives, suggest otherwise. Mr. Trump had been medically exempted for more than a year when the draft lottery began in December 1969, well before he received what he has described as his “phenomenal” draft number.
Because of his medical exemption, his lottery number would have been irrelevant, said Richard Flahavan, a spokesman for the Selective Service System, who has worked for the agency for three decades.
“He was already classified and determined not to be subject to the draft under the conditions in place at the time,” Mr. Flahavan said.
In a 2011 television interview, Mr. Trump described watching the draft lottery as a college student and learning then that he would not be drafted.
“I’ll never forget; that was an amazing period of time in my life,” he said in the interview, on Fox 5 New York. “I was going to the Wharton School of Finance, and I was watching as they did the draft numbers, and I got a very, very high number.”
But Mr. Trump had graduated from Wharton 18 months before the lottery — the first in the United States in 27 years — was held.
The fact that a candidate seeking the presidency received military deferments or otherwise avoided fighting in Vietnam is not unusual. Voters have shown themselves willing to look past such controversies, electing George W. Bush [ https://web.archive.org/web/20000619121358/www.boston.com/news/politics/campaign2000/news/One_year_gap_in_Bush_s_Guard_duty+.shtml ], who served stateside in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam era, and Bill Clinton [ http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/16/opinion/bill-clinton-s-vietnam-test-cont-d.html ], who wrote to an Army R.O.T.C. officer in 1969 thanking him for “saving me from the draft.”
Mr. Trump likened his history to that of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. [ http://web.archive.org/web/20080903001303/http://www.courant.com/news/politics/ats-ap-cvn-biden-vietnamaug31,0,2934547.story ] and other prominent politicians, who also received several deferments. Mr. Trump said he had strongly opposed United States involvement in Vietnam.
“I thought it was ridiculous,” he said. “I thought it was another deal where politicians got us into a war where we shouldn’t have been in. And I felt that very strongly from Day 1.”
Even if his views on Vietnam are broadly shared today, both his record and his statements on the war have proved fraught for Mr. Trump during his campaign. Last summer, he faced a backlash when he declared that John McCain, the Republican senator who had been a prisoner of war during Vietnam, was “not a war hero,” explaining, “I like people who weren’t captured.” Then a series of audio clips surfaced from the 1990s, including one in which Mr. Trump told Howard Stern [ https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-isnt-into-anal-melania-never-poops-and-other-things-he ], the radio show host, that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases while dating “is my personal Vietnam.”
Mr. Trump has acknowledged [ http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-feels-guilty-serving-vietnam/story?id=35523207 ] feeling somewhat “guilty” for not serving in Vietnam and has stressed that if he had been called, he would have gone.
After his 18th birthday, in June 1964, Mr. Trump registered with the Selective Service System, as all men his age did. It was the summer after his graduation from the New York Military Academy, and Mr. Trump recalled filling out his papers with his father, Fred Trump, at the local draft office on Jamaica Avenue in Queens.
The next month, Mr. Trump received the first of four education deferments as he worked his way through his undergraduate studies, first at Fordham, in the Bronx, and then as a transfer student in the real estate program at the Wharton School, in Philadelphia.
Mr. Trump addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Charlotte, N.C., last week.
Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times
He received subsequent student deferments during his sophomore, junior and senior years.
At Fordham, Mr. Trump commuted from his parents’ home in Queens and played squash, football and tennis. He remembered Fordham for its “good sports.”
At Wharton, Mr. Trump began preparing in earnest for his career in real estate by buying and selling fixer-upper townhouses in Pennsylvania and driving home to New York on weekends to work for his father.
During the Wharton years, he said, he had less time for sports but stayed physically active, playing pickup golf at public courses near campus.
At Penn and other universities, Vietnam dominated discussions. Mr. Trump said Wharton, with its business focus, had been somewhat different. Although he “hated the concept of the war,” he said, he did not speak out against it.
“I was never a fan of the Vietnam War,” he said. “But I was never at the protest level, either, because I had other things to do.”
As Mr. Trump’s graduation neared, the fighting in Vietnam was intensifying. The Tet offensive in January 1968 had left thousands of American troops dead or wounded, with battles continuing into the spring.
On the day of Mr. Trump’s graduation, 40 Americans were killed in Vietnam. The Pentagon was preparing to call up more troops.
With his schooling behind him, there would have been little to prevent someone in Mr. Trump’s situation from being drafted, if not for the diagnosis of his bone spurs.
“If you didn’t have a basis to be exempt or postponed, you would have been ordered for induction,” said Mr. Flahavan of the Selective Service.
Many men of Mr. Trump’s age were looking for ways to avoid the war, said Charles Freehof, a draft counselor at Brooklyn College at the time, noting that getting a letter from a physician was a particularly effective option.
“We had very little trouble with people coming back saying, ‘They wouldn’t accept my doctor’s note,’” Mr. Freehof said.
Mr. Trump had a 1-Y classification, which was considered a temporary exemption. But in practice, only a national emergency or an official declaration of war, which the United States avoided during the fighting in Vietnam, would have resulted in his being considered for service.
Neither occurred, and Mr. Trump remained 1-Y until 1972, when his status changed to 4-F, permanently disqualifying him.
“For all practical purposes, once you got the 1-Y, you were free and clear of vulnerability for the draft, even in the case of the lottery,” Mr. Flahavan said.
Still, Mr. Trump, in the interviews, said he believed he could have been subject to another physical exam to check on his bone spurs, had his draft number been called. “I would have had to go eventually because that was a minor medical — it was called ‘minor medical,’” he said.
But the publicly available draft records of Mr. Trump include the letters “DISQ” next to his exam date, with no notation indicating that he would be re-examined.
Since Mr. Khan publicly addressed him in the Democratic convention speech last week, Mr. Trump has been pressed about his sacrifice, including by George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.
“I think I’ve made a lot of sacrifices,” Mr. Trump said to Mr. Stephanopoulos. “I work very, very hard. I’ve created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures. I’ve had tremendous success. I think I’ve done a lot.”
Kitty Bennett contributed research.
© 2016 The New York Times Company
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html [with (approaching 4,000) comments]
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Surprise! Latest Fox News Benghazi Claim Is Also False
“Fox & Friends” cohosts were wrong about rival news networks.
08/02/2016 Updated August 2, 2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fox-news-patricia-smith-benghazi-speech_us_57a00e4de4b08a8e8b5f37c9 [with comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-39aB1jW_uk [embedded; comments disabled]
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Wrong: Fox News anchor says networks covered Khizr Khan but skipped Patricia Smith
"Nobody covered" the remarks of Patricia Smith, the mother of a Benghazi victim, "live, but almost everybody covered Khizir Khan's, Mr. Khan's remarks live."
In comment on TV – Monday, August 1, 2016
August 1st, 2016
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/aug/01/brian-kilmeade/brian-kilmeade-says-news-networks-were-biased-agai/ [with embedded video]
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Turn On, Tune In, Feel Good | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS
Published on Aug 1, 2016 by Full Frontal with Samantha Bee [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w/videos ]
Optimism is the most dangerous drug known to man and the DNC dealt it to us all.
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