Trump offends veterans with comments on McCain

Business mogul and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump seemed to finally cross the line within his own party when, at a gathering of Christian conservatives in Iowa on Saturday, he dismissed and derided the military service of Arizona Sen. It was only a month ago that Trump said, and I quote: ‘When Mexico sends its people they are not sending their best…

Voters could be responding to the storm of dissent from across the political spectrum, including 12 of the other 14 declared Republican presidential candidates, that followed his comments about McCain. Sen.

Trump later clarified that he believes prisoners of war are heroes.

At a press availability following his remarks, Trump denied saying that McCain isn’t a war hero and said, “If somebody’s a prisoner, I consider them a war hero“.

“He’s not a war hero”.

“People who run for public office typically perform a great public service, regardless of whether they win on Election Day”, the paper’s editorial board wrote.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, a close friend of McCain’s who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination alongside Trump, said Tuesday he didn’t mind if Trump stayed in race as long as his behavior improves. “The sad truth is if you look at many of their policies, it can be hard to tell the difference”. John McCain, the real problem is that Trump should have put the credit for his comment where the credit is due.

“I am always amazed when he doubles down and keeps going”, Carroll says.

But Trump appeared to tone down his rhetoric a bit late Monday.

McCain endured more than five years of torture and botched surgeries after North Vietnamese soldiers captured him following the crash of his Navy jet.

Trump (who avoided the draft due to a medical deferment) and his supporters shouldn’t need a reminder of McCain’s sacrifices.

“Somehow to denigrate that in any way is offensive, I think, to most of our veterans”.

It’s freedom of speech, or rather an opinion voiced by Donald Trump, that upset Robinson. “I supported him. I raised a lot of money for his campaign against President Obama, and certainly, if there was a misunderstanding, I would totally take that back”, he said.

With a smile, the senator’s son said Trump was wrong about that. “The paper went on to say in that if “[Trump] had not already disqualified himself through his attempts to demonize immigrants as rapists and drug dealers, he certainly did so by questioning [McCain’s] war record”.