Carl Paladino, the co-chair for Donald Trump’s campaign in New York, said that Khizr Khan’s remarks at the Democratic National Convention demonstrated a “lack of character and backbone” that dishonored his son, a Muslim-American soldier killed in combat.
In a Sunday email to BuzzFeed News, Paladino slammed Khan for his “lack of objectivity and submission to Hillary’s hideous effort to compel him to disgrace the memory of his son.”
He also questioned Khan’s motivations, saying that Clinton’s staff “obviously wrote the speech.”
“She even bought him the pocket constitution,” Paladino claimed, “which he probably never read but also returned to the staff after the speech.”
Paladino went on to accuse Khan of “advocating for Islamist terrorists” and communicating “with terrorist individuals and organizations,” implying that this motivated Khan’s remarks.
He did not provide evidence to support either claim.
“Allowing himself to be so controlled by Hillary that he would dishonor the memory of his heroic son shows the man’s lack of character and backbone,” Paladino concluded. “I am certain that most Gold Star parents would despise Mr Kahn’s (sic) attempt to politicize his son’s loss.”
Paladino previously suggested that Khan is “a member of the Muslim Brotherhood” and that Trump therefore does not have to respect or refer to him as a “Gold Star parent,” saying that Khan “certainly doesn’t deserve that title.”
And of course Mr. Khan’s speech was very heartfelt and it was clear how much he loved his adopted country. But don’t let that bother you.
Paladino is a disgrace to every Italian that ever lived.
Maybe Paul Manafart heard him this time
Why does so much scum come out of the woodwork for Trump? Trump’s surrogates are as disgusting if not more than Trump himself.
I passed on to a family member who lives in NY the previous story about Paladino from late last week, when he was interviewed on Imus and slimed the Khan’s as well as questioning where Obama was born.
The family member replied (paraphrasing), “when he ran for governor of the state in 2010, this human piece of shit made a visit to [redacted] where I was working at the time. I was assigned to his security detail, I had to carry a firearm. It was a real shitshow. At times I had to physically separate the protesters from him, they wanted to beat the living shit out of him. After he was done with his speech, he wanted to come up to me and thank me and shake my hand. I told him, ‘Sir, I am being paid to protect you, not to like you.’”