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Trumps ‘have no idea’ what sacrifice entails

Donald J. Trump Jr.’s pathetic effort to elevate his family’s experience with those who have served — and often paid the price for their service — their country has drawn the expected response from the expected source.

Khizr Khan is a Gold Star father whose son, U.S. Army Lt. Humayun Khan, was killed in action in Iraq. He has lambasted Don Jr.’s statement of “sacrifice” with profound outrage.

He said Trump has no clue as to the sacrifice that many Americans and their families have made for the country. Khan’s comment came after Don Jr. told TV interviewers about how he and his family visited Arlington National Cemetery the day before Trump Sr. was to become president. He said in his book “Triggered” that the visit reminded him of the business “sacrifice” he and his family made to ensure Dad’s election as president.

Khizr Khan’s response is gripping. “They have no idea what service and sacrifice is when his turn, Donald Trump’s turn, came to serve, he ran away,” Khan said on MSNBC. “What does it say to you when somebody says that they’ve visited and seen those graves there at Arlington and then talks about their business sacrifice? Especially for you, who has a son buried there,” the interviewer, Kendis Gibson, asked of Khan.

“It’s disgusting. It’s shameful,” Khan replied. “But we don’t expect any better from Donald Trump or Donald Trump Jr. because they have sacrificed nothing. They have gained from all of this.”

Yes, and so it is that Donald Trump Jr. has managed to insert himself directly in a long-standing discussion about sacrifice and service and his family’s shameful — or shameless — attempt at lifting themselves to the level of those who have given everything on behalf of their beloved country.

Sacrifice? The Trumps know nothing about what it means.

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Don Trump Jr. makes a grotesque comparison about sacrifice

Simply grotesque.

That’s the only description I can give to something that Donald J. Trump Jr. wrote in his book “Triggered.”

He writes about visiting Arlington National Cemetery in January 2017, the day before his father became the 45th president of the United States. He looked at the graves and thought of the “sacrifice” his family would endure once Daddy Trump became president.

He writes: In that moment, I also thought of all the attacks we’d already suffered as a family, and about all the sacrifices we’d have to make to help my father succeed — voluntarily giving up a huge chunk of our business and all international deals to avoid the appearance that we were ‘profiting off of the office.’

Frankly, it was a big sacrifice, costing us millions and millions of dollars annually. Of course, we didn’t get any credit whatsoever from the mainstream media, which now does not surprise me at all.

Wow! He equates the “sacrifice” his family has made to the men and women who have served in harm’s way, who have committed themselves to public service, and in many instances — as he looked over the graves at Arlington — have died on battlefields in far-off lands.

To equate in any fashion the sacrifice made by these Americans to what he and his family have endured is beyond the pale.

Veterans have spoken out in anger at what Don Jr. has written. I cannot blame them. You may count me as one American veteran who takes great offense at what this scion of a family born into immense wealth has written.

This guy knows not a damn thing about “sacrifice.”