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McCain was responding to Trump’s suggestion at a Saturday gathering of social conservatives in Iowa that the 2008 GOP presidential nominee and former prisoner of war is “not a war hero”.

Jack McCain, the fourth in his family to graduate from the Naval Academy, said he is less concerned about Trump apologizing to his father, which he has declined to do, than to other prisoners of war and military veterans.

Over the weekend, Trump said that McCain, a Vietnam vet who was captured, tortured and imprisoned for five years, is “not a war hero”.

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...