Khizr Khan, the 66-year-old Pakistani who has engaged in a back-and-forth with Donald Trump since the Democratic Convention, just had information revealed about him that is contradicting the current media narrative.
The Gold Star father has been in the spotlight after he waved a pocket-sized copy of the Constitution during a DNC speech and asked if Trump had even read it. Shortly afterward the media propped him up as an expert on the historical founding document, and touted his knowledge of law repeatedly.
Chris Matthews of MSNBC even likened Khan to Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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“You`re like Justice Kennedy because Justice Kennedy, Anthony Kennedy, who Ronald Reagan appointed, is the swing vote, you know, and uses the liberty clause and the equal protection clause for all of his recent big decisions,” Matthews said during an Aug. 1 segment.
Now it seems that most of the information regarding his extensive knowledge was just hype.
Breitbart revealed Friday that Khan passed the BAR when he was 60 and was only permitted to practice law in New York as of June 22, 2010.
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In an article published at the end of July, the Washington Post claimed that Khan was “a Harvard-trained lawyer.”
To many this would seem impressive, as Harvard is one of the premier law schools in the country. But Khan graduated from Harvard in 1986 with an Master of Law graduate degree — not a standard law degree.
The Master of Law degree is what most foreign students seek to obtain if they have previously received a law degree in another country. It is a one-year program, as opposed to the standard three-year law school education.
Khan originally studied at Punjab University in Lahore, Pakistan. Not only was he taught British law, but he also become an expert in Sharia law — a medieval Islamic code that doles out harsh punishment for certain crimes.
Being a devout Muslim, Khan has been quoted as saying Sharia takes the place of “all other juridical works.”
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Even though this newly revealed information is concerning, it is unlikely the Democratic party will stop using him as a political force to damage the Republican presidential nominee’s image.
On Tuesday, Khan asked for Arizona Sen. John McCain to withdraw support for Trump.
“I implore Sen. McCain … I continue to implore all of the good Republicans who either support or are going to vote for their party’s candidate, this will be a historic moment in the Republican Party. If you publicly rebuked him, you will look back and you will stand tall in front of the nation,” he told Cronkite News Tuesday.
Democrats are now urging Khan to run for political office, as well as hoping he will appear in future Clinton campaign ads.
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