The lesson for Donald Trump in all this is you don't touch a third rail in American politics that is a Gold Star Mother. (Photos of Humayun Khan look every bit the part.) But worst of all, Humayun Khan, one of the family's three sons, was a U.S. Army Captain who had been killed in Afghanistan. (Berezina, the battle between Napoleon's retreating Army and pursuing Russian forces in November 1812 resulted in heavy French casualties, although the French Army managed to escape across the Berezina River. Khizr Khan, who presented himself as a hyper U.S. patriot, withdrew from his jacket a pocket version of the American Constitution.

Source: Huffington Post August 08, 2016 19:07 UTC