Longtime Trump Confidante Roger Stone and Trump’s Head of Veterans Outreach Push Offensive Story
Leave it to two of Donald Trump‘s most disgusting advisors to claim Khizr Khan is a Muslim Brotherhood agent working to help Hillary Clinton. Khan, of course, is the Muslim American father of a fallen U.S. soldier who addressed the Democratic National Convention last Thursday, suggesting Donald Trump has not read the constitution and does not understand what sacrifice is.
Trump, ever since, has been publicly battling Khan, and his wife Ghazala Khan, even claiming that the mother who lost her Army Captain son to a bomb in Iraq while protecting his fellow soldiers didn’t speak at the DNC because she had nothing to say.
On Monday, Roger Stone, a longtime Trump advisor whom Trump fired last year (Stone says he fired Trump) but who is still considered a Trump confidante, and Trump’s head of veterans’ outreach, New Hampshire State Rep. Al Baldasaro, both pushed an offensive story by a father and son team of extremists whose views include being anti-Islam, and have called for LGBT people to be put to death.
Baldasaro of course made national news last month when he called for Hillary Clinton to be shot for treason.
After the anti-gay hate crime mass shooting terror attack in Orlando in June, Walid Shoebat, the co-author of the article Trump’s advisors are pushing, wrote, “The only ones moaning over fifty gays slaughtered are liberals, idiots and gay lovers.” His son Theodore took a different approach, saying, as Right Wing Watch reported:
“Muslims kill each other all the time [and] sodomites kill each other all the time,” so this case of a Muslim killing dozens of gay people was nothing more than “mutant killing mutant, devil killing devil.”
“Sodomites are criminals” and do not deserve the prayers of Christians, Shoebat stated. “The sodomites who were killed in this club were not innocent people. They were not good people. They were not people who were just victims who we should just feel sorry for. It was scum killing scum.”
ThinkProgress’ Judd Legum notes the Shoebat article “also revives discredited attacks linking Huma Abedin, a top adviser to Hillary Clinton, to the Muslim Brotherhood.”