Conservative columnist Ann Coulter defended Donald Trump by saying it’s time to start asking tougher questions about Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim-American Army captain killed in Iraq who has been attacking Trump for the last week.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has come under fire in recent days for getting into a verbal scuffle with Khan, the father of Capt. Humayun Khan. Coulter said Democrats had used the issue to prevent Trump from talking about issues that matter, like immigration.
“Yes, a candidate for president of the United States is supposed to be prohibited from discussing a dangerous immigration program because Khan’s son was one of fourteen (14!) Muslim servicemen killed by other Muslims in our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Coulter wrote in a Wednesday column. “That’s why we’re obligated to import yet more Muslims, including, undoubtedly, some just like the ones who killed his son.”
“After Trump somehow got the crazy idea that a presidential candidate was allowed to discuss government policies and proposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigration, which, by the way, is perfectly constitutional, the entire media and political class erupted in a sputtering rage,” Coulter added.
She ripped into Republicans who were working with the media to derail Trump.
“Conscience of a Nation, Speaker Paul Ryan proclaimed: ‘That’s not who we are.’ Jeb! Bush made the subtle and clever argument that Trump was ‘unhinged.’ Marco Rubio called any pause in Muslim immigration ‘offensive.’ ABC News’ Jonathan Karl called Trump’s plan ‘outrageous,’ which was way better than MSNBC, where Trump was compared to white supremacists and Nazis.”
“The media and political class had no choice: They had to produce a victim to make their argument, in order to block any response,” Coulter wrote. “Does anyone know what Khan thinks of gays? How about miniskirts? Alcohol? Because I gather we’re going to have to turn all our policies over to him, too.”
She questioning whether policymakers would start deferring to the families of other veterans killed in the line of duty.
“Muslim troops accounted for 0.2 percent of all U.S. troop deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,” she wrote. “Southerners accounted for 38 percent of those killed in Iraq and 47 percent in Afghanistan. What has South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley ‘sacrificed’ compared to the families of these men? How about Nikki put their flag back up?” she wrote, referring to a Confederate Flag Haley had removed from the grounds of her state’s Capitol.
“The Confederate flag won’t lead to thousands of dead and maimed Americans, as Muslim immigration does. The only danger posed by the Confederate flag is that media elites will hold the South in even greater contempt than they already do, assuming that’s possible,” she added.
“But as long as they brought it up, if only people who lost children in our wars may discuss public policy, then only they should vote, not only on how many more Muslim immigrants this country needs, but on all government policies. What has Chuck Todd sacrificed?” Coulter questioned.
“Have any current members of The New York Times editorial board ever lost a son in war … fighting on the American side?” she added.
