McCain Responds To Trump

Trump’s weekend comments about McCain – that he is not a hero “because he was captured” and “I like people who weren’t captured” – have prompted calls for him to exit the Republican presidential race. I just hate to see when people don’t have common sense, don’t have an understanding of what’s going on….

Lauer said he visited the Vietnam prison with McCain in 2000, and that “I could never question his heroism during that war”.

Trump disparaged McCain and other prisoners of war Saturday, in a rapid back-and-forth with Republican pollster Frank Luntz. John McCain, the 2016 GOP candidate responded to his critics in an op-ed and on the “Today” show.

Perry, an Air Force veteran, had one of the quickest and most forceful condemnations of Trump, insisting the real estate mogul wasn’t fit to be commander in chief and should drop out of the race.

He again blasted McCain’s level of support for fellow veterans.

Trump is known for his off-the-cuff and provocative statements, but his latest on McCain sparked a firestorm of bipartisan condemnation. But the occasionally fiery McCain had a calm demeanor, saying simply: “I am not a hero”.

“It’s all Trump, all the time“, said Matt Strawn, the former Iowa GOP chairman.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, a Democrat, lashed out at the comment, as did former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Republican. “I’m not a hero”, he said.

After claiming Republican Senator John McCain was not a war hero, Trump has won the disapproval of yet another fellow presidential hopeful, Florida Sen.

Raddatz asked Trump if McCain’s capture in Vietnam – where he spent five years as a prisoner of war and was beaten and tortured by the North Vietnamese – described a war hero. He challenged me. He said I was trying to make him politically correct when I was asking him, ‘Do you really want to use these words? While many on the political right have been critical, Fox News came to his defense during the July 20 edition of “Fox and Friends.” “But I’ll tell you, there were boos when he made his comment about McCain and about veterans who weren’t captured”. John McCain and all veterans for his disparaging remarks about the Arizona senator’s military service.

“Early in his campaign, when he said something outrageous, people kind of said, ‘Just ignore it and move on; it will go away, ‘” Sen.