It was a flippant comment, not a serious one.
“Interesting that they would be harping on a comment made that Trump made during the campaign, and quickly corrected after he said it. It was a flippant comment, not a serious one.”
Dems will grasp at straws like nobody’s business.
But he did make it, and McCain has never forgiven him for it. When he gave thumbs down on the health care vote you know what was going through his mind and it was that Trump remark.