Miles Rapoport, president of Common Cause, a Washington-based group that advocates for tougher lobbying restrictions, praised Bush’s proposals, saying a six-year ban would be “at the top end of what we would have wished or hoped for”.
“Those who inspired us to do things that we otherwise wouldn’t have been capable of doing, those are the people that I think he owes an apology to”, McCain told MSNBC television. John McCain (R-AZ) over the weekend where he said McCain is “a war hero...
Republican Congressman Steve King says he suspects it is “not in the DNA” of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to apologize – and King suggests that could doom Trump’s campaign.
McCain said Trump should apologize to veterans after he dismissed the US senator’s military record because he was taken prisoner during the Vietnam War.
Sen McCain, speaking for the first time since Mr Trump’s controversial remarks, played down the personal attack, and instead said the Republican presidential candidate owed an apology to all veterans.
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.
Trump made the controversial comments about McCain and other prisoners of war as he spoke at a question-and-answer session at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, on Saturday.
McCain told MSNBC he has fielded a “flood of calls” from military veterans unhappy with Trump’s remarks. “Somehow to denigrate that in any way is offensive, I think, to most of our veterans”.
Warren said while it’s easy to defend McCain as a war hero, the Republican candidates were much more reluctant to go after Trump when he described Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers.