Trump should apologise to US military families – McCain

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.

Trump sparked outrage over the weekend when suggested that a serviceman who was captured could not be a real hero, in reference to McCain’s time in a Vietnamese prison. “So what I said is John McCain, I disagree with him that these people aren’t mad”.

“He wouldn’t be candidate I would vote for”, said Jessica Aprile of Plaistow.

John McCain should be hailed as a war hero because he was captured and held in Vietnam for more than five years, Republicans have rushed to say it disqualifies Trump from running for president.

At his formal announcement last month, Trump said illegal immigrants from Mexico are criminals and rapists.

As Talking Points Memo reported, the former reality star had taken the lead with Republican voters before he knocked McCain’s record, winning the support of 24 percent of respondents in one poll. “I like individuals who weren’t captured”.

“Somehow to denigrate that in any way is offensive, I think, to most of our veterans”. McCain said those polls might not hold up. Now, he’s watching again as his father’s reputation as a war hero becomes an unlikely subject of debate in the 2016 campaign.

After catching flak for those comments, Trump went on to twitter to respond to his critics.

McCain told MSNBC he has fielded a “flood of calls” from military veterans unhappy with Trump’s remarks.

Donald Trump addresses the press at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 10, 2015.

Trump’s comments have attracted harsher criticism from some other Republican presidential candidates, with Sen.

The war of words between Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump and Arizona Senator John McCain is drawing attention nationwide and has veterans here in the Valley talking. He’s also sought to use the furor over his remarks to remind supporters, especially those frustrated with Washington, that he’s not a typical politician.