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But he stopped short of calling for Trump to drop out of the race for the GOP presidential nomination, as others have done.

To him, Trump’s sentiment is more than just questioning McCain’s heroism, but a “dumb” remark that shows his own lack of military experience or understanding.

The real estate mogul has refused to apologise for the remarks, despite criticism from his own party, including calls from rival candidates for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination for him to drop out of the race.

“This is a line he’s crossed, and this is the beginning of the end of Donald Trump …”

To him, Trump’s sentiment is more than just questioning McCain’s heroism, but a “dumb” remark that shows his own lack of military experience or understanding. Criticism from the media and the likes of Graham and Branstad may help Trump muster support from...

Donald Trump’s brashness has got him in the headlines again today!

“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...

Trump, meanwhile, levelled new criticism against the Arizona Republican and 2008 GOP presidential nominee, saying McCain had made America “less safe” through his votes in Congress. “The daily news” pointing out trump received five deferments avoiding the...

“Still, it is hard to predict what could happen to Trump’s support in the coming days and weeks as the controversy plays out”. His comments in Iowa about which veterans deserve to be called heroes shows how unsafe his candidacy is to the GOP brand and the...

If our military decides to decorate a soldier for his service, it really isn’t the citizenry’s right to ignore or question that.

Over the weekend Donald Trump said that Senator John McCain was not a war hero because he was captured.

Donald Trump, who over the weekend said he liked “people who weren’t captured“, should apologize to American prisoners of war and their families, Sen.

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”.

After dismissing McCain’s reputation as a war hero because he was captured in Vietnam and saying “I like people who weren’t captured“, Trump declared “I will say what I want to say”.

Clinton called McCain a genuine war hero and said it was shameful “that it took so long for most of his fellow Republican candidates to start standing up to” Trump.