Taking every chance to smack 70-year-old GOP nominee real estate tycoon Donald Trump, the Republican Party and mainstream media show no signs of letting up. Getting into a dust-up with Hillary-backer Khizr Khan, the GOP and press continue to hammer Trump for questioning why his wife Ghazala said nothing while Khizr, a Harvard-trained lawyer, ripped Trump for knowing nothing about the Constitution at the Democratic National Convention right before 68-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered her acceptance speech. For the past week, Hillary’s campaign has paraded Khizir on every talk show imaginable, looking for any chance to rip Trump. Trump’s former rivals have gotten into the act questioning his judgment asking why Ghazala didn’t talk. Trump’s detractors in the GOP, especially Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) ,pounced on the chance to attack Trump.
Not one voice in the Trump-bashing GOP community or mainstream media questioned the propriety of Hillary exploiting a fallen Iraq soldier for political gain. All the discussion has focused on how “inappropriate” for Trump to question a “Gold Star” deceased soldier, letting Khizir have a field day bashing Trump. Telling Trump he had “sacrificed nothing and no one,” Khizr exposed the total hypocrisy to his argument: That only someone who lost a family member in the military knows sacrifice. Khizr questioned nothing about Hillary’s Oct. 7, 2002 vote in the U.S. Senate for the Iraq War Resolution, sending his son Humayan to Iraq. No, only Trump hasn’t “sacrificed” anything. Watching the media and GOP bash Trump with Khizr’s story shows undeniable bias against Trump. No one in the media has yet questioned Hillary’s clever political trick.
When you consider what’s really at stake in the election, the media and GOP are only concerned about headlines in a down news cycle. Instead of questioning Hillary’s plan to raise taxes and the national debt ceiling, the media focuses on nonsense. Trump never said anything derogatory about the Khan family, only questioned why Ghazala let her husband rip him at the convention and in the media. Showing how superficial the media, Trump was ripped for comments about Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin “is not going into Ukraine,” Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Aug. 31. What Trump was saying, unlike President Barack Obama, Putin wouldn’t dare go one inch more than he already has. Putin invaded Crimea March 1, 2014, one week after a U.S.-backed pro-Western coup that toppled the duly elected government of Kremlin-backed President Viktor Yanukovich.
No one in the media wants to talk about difference between Trump and Hillary’s foreign policy or, for that matter, approach to the stalled U.S. economy. If you listened to Hillary’s acceptance speech, foreign relations and the economy are just rosy. With U.S. second quarter GDP at 1.2%, Hillary told cheering convention goers how great the Obama economy, with its near record low unemployment rate. Faced with raising the debt ceiling to $21 trillion, Fed Chairman Janet Yellen announced July 26 that she ruled out interest rate hikes for the foreseeable future, fearing recession. Yesterday’s White House announcement that a new Libyan bombing campaign barely got attention on network and cable news. Only Trump’s misbehavior with Ghazala warranted responses from the tabloid-driven press. Now embroiled in four conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, the press pays no attention.
GOP figures like McCain couldn’t wait to get in line to smack Trump. “In recent days, Donald Trump disparaged a fallen soldiers parents. He has suggested that the likes of their son should not be allowed in the United States,” said McCain, taking another cheap shot at the GOP nominee. McCain knows that Trump has clarified his position on a Muslim ban to include only un-vetted refugees coming from the war-ravaged Middle East. McCain tells the real story about the Never Trump movement that continues to rail against the GOP’s nominee. McCain can’t let go of Trump’s tasteless critique of being a prisoner of war. No one in the press wants to talk about Hillary’s foreign policy record that turned Iraq, Egypt, Libya and now Syria into terrorist hotbeds. If Hillary gets her way, Syria turns into the next Iraq or Libya, spreading more death, destruction and terrorism in the region.
Fixated on Khizir Khan’s outrage against Trump, the media misses Trump’s strong desire to get U.S.-Russian relations back on track. Calling Putin a dangerous dictator, Hillary plans to carry on Obama’s abysmal U.S.-Russian relationship, tossing out nearly 60 years of U.S.-Russian diplomacy. What’s become abundantly clear is that the GOP seeks to sabotage Trump’s candidacy, handing the office to Hillary on a silver platter. When you hear the disgraceful GOP defections embracing Hillary, it’s clear that large swaths of the GOP want Trump to lose in November. Even President Barack Obama, breaking from protocol, takes every chance to rip Trump. “What does this say about your party that this is your standard bearer?” asked Obama, referring to the petty squabbles that dominate today’s cable, network and print news. Instead of asking big questions about the economy and foreign policy, the beat goes on.
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