Rand Paul Comes To Trump’s Defense On Confusing ‘Kurds’ And ‘Quds’

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Real estate mogul Donald Trump may have had a hard time answering foreign policy questions in a Thursday radio interview, but presidential campaign rival Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wasn’t about to knock him for it on Friday.

The Kentucky Republican came to Trump’s defense after the GOP presidential frontrunner was stumped by a question from conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt on the Quds force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Trump mistook the Quds force for the Kurds, an ethnic group.

“It can be hard to hear the difference. If you are talking about hearing, I sometimes don’t hear well,” Paul said on Sirius XM’s “The Michael Smerconish Program.” “Between Quds and Kurds—also, the pronunciation you know is a ‘q’ and not a ‘k’ but it sounds like a ‘k.’”

Trump seemed to chafe at being corrected by Hewitt and accused the radio host of asking “gotcha questions.” Paul said he agreed with that assessment.

“I also do think that running through a list of every different Arabic name and asking somebody to respond to them is maybe a little bit of a game of gotcha,” he told host Michael Smerconish.

Paul’s defense of Trump was notable, given that the two have taken quite a few shots at each other in recent weeks. Trump sniped at Paul last month on the GOP debate stage after Paul pointed to the billionaire’s previous support for single-payer healthcare.

“I don’t think you heard me,” Trump deflected. “You’re having a hard time tonight.”

But Paul did think Trump should’ve been able to at least distinguish between Hamas and Hezbollah when Hewitt asked him about the extremist groups.

“Knowing a little bit of the history, or a significant amount of the history, of what’s been going on the Middle East is important for our next leader,” he said.

h/t Buzzfeed

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  1. If Trump is elected everyone’s heads will be spinning too much to notice what he does and doesn’t know.

  2. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Little Don Trumpett
    sat with Hugh Hewitt
    speaking of Kurds and why.
    When along came another,
    with a Q or its brother,
    And frightened Don Trumpett away…

  3. Donald and Rand, together again, ruminating in the morning and chewing the Qud.

  4. Random is the second going-to-lose candidate auditioning for The Donald’s Veep.

  5. This coming from the same party that didn’t have a clue and still doesn’t over the difference between Shi’ite Muslims and Sunni Muslims. They’re all fucking uneducated and incompetent when it comes to foreign affairs. That’s why they all want to toy with starting another fucking World War at their earliest convenience. Their war-mongering rhetoric certainly suggests as much. Destabilizing Iraq and thereby the entire Middle-East obviously wasn’t enough for them.

    When you don’t know shit about the world and the people that live in it, who cares if you don’t know the name of the players you want to wage the next war against. Amiright?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAGGpK7bSWc

    Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan. Yeah, that’s the ticket. That’s what we want in a Commander-in-Chief. And Republicans love to call themselves experts on military and foreign affairs. Not in my lifetime. I’ve never seen that yet. Much like their claims on the benefits of trickle-down economics, its all Bullshit branding and PR, and never has been based on facts or reality.

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