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John McCain responds to Donald Trump: 'I'm not a hero'
Business Insider ^ | 07/20/2015 | Colin Campbell

Posted on 07/20/2015 8:12:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) said Monday that real-estate developer Donald Trump should apologize for comments he made over the weekend — but not to him.

"I think he may owe an apology to the families of those who have sacrificed in conflict and those who have undergone the prison experience in serving our country," McCain said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

McCain was responding to Trump, a GOP presidential candidate who panned his war record over the weekend. Trump ignited a media firestorm by saying McCain was a war hero only because he was captured during the Vietnam War.

"He's not a war hero," Trump said Saturday while speaking at a forum in Iowa. "He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, OK? I hate to tell you ... I believe, perhaps, he's a war hero."

Almost every Republican running for president quickly condemned Trump's remarks and praised McCain as a true war hero. But McCain, whose fighter plane was shot down over Vietnam and who was held prisoner for more than five years, said the real heroes were some of his commanding officers.

"In the case of many of our veterans, when Mr. Trump said that he prefers to be with people who are not captured, well, the great honor of my life was to serve in the company of heroes," McCain said. "I'm not a hero. But those who were my senior ranking officers … those that have 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."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Minnesota; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; alfranken; arizona; chrisrock; donaldtrump; election2016; finos; hero; johnmccain; minnesota; newyork; senatorjohnmccain; senatormccain; snl; trump
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To: boycott

and he sure as hell didn’t keep his word to never leave a buddy behind-

and he’ll never get an invite to Rolling Thunder will he?

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/07/18/trump-right-about-hanoi-john-mccain/

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may282008/mccain_garwood_5-28-08.php


21 posted on 07/20/2015 8:30:08 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s always done that....”I’m not a hero for getting shot down in Viet Nam and spending 5 years in a box and getting tortured and having my arms stretched out of socket from being tortured even though those who hate me say it was from the ejection from the aircraft that did all the damage.....but vote for me because that’s all I’ve got.”


22 posted on 07/20/2015 8:32:10 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'll vote for a democrat before I'll vote for another rino.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“My friendsh....I am not a war hero. I am a war whore-o.”


23 posted on 07/20/2015 8:35:13 AM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: Farmer Dean

He’s always had the big ego. That’s why his military record is filled with disciplinary actions. His father was an Admiral so he got away with stuff that other pilots were kicked out for doing.

Remember when he accepted the nomination he said “I was a hot shot fighter pilot but they broke me.” He was afraid the other side was going to tell the truth about him. They didn’t have to do it. All they had to do was threaten him and he threw the election and threw Palin under the bus.


24 posted on 07/20/2015 8:36:00 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'll vote for a democrat before I'll vote for another rino.)
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To: SeekAndFind
McCain Badgers Chair of Families of POW/MIA Coalition

IMHO, this man was, is and will always be a disreputable liar and scumbag.

25 posted on 07/20/2015 8:36:17 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Romans 13:12)
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To: stockpirate

interesting that Sarah has been left out- or stayed out- of this one


26 posted on 07/20/2015 8:38:25 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: SeekAndFind

Enough. Time to stop feeding the Marxist Media. I want to know if McCain is going to vote no on the Iran deal?


27 posted on 07/20/2015 8:38:47 AM PDT by Lopeover (My vote is valuable, you must earn it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, then what is all the fuss about? John McCain says he isn’t a hero....even though Donald Trump said FOUR TIMES that John McCain IS a hero.

I guess the media isn’t telling the truth. Again.


28 posted on 07/20/2015 8:47:13 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
I'd love it if we could get off this flap -- although it does beat the hell out of the 100+ topics on the Waco drug gang shootout -- and I'd like to think that this will be the last ping to a topic about it.
29 posted on 07/20/2015 8:48:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Cowboy Bob
You lost this argument

It's hard to see a winner in it.

30 posted on 07/20/2015 8:48:55 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Dr. Thorne

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/mccain-and-the-pow-cover-up/

“dime store Rambos”- McCain is the master of namecalling

Was McCain a member of the “Peace Committee?”
Maybe time will tell


31 posted on 07/20/2015 8:49:06 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: SgtHooper
Bergdahl was not a POW.

He was a deserter.

I know you know the difference.

32 posted on 07/20/2015 8:53:37 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: SeekAndFind

Yep. The media has something to latch onto now. Trump versus McCain versus vets. I hope Mr. Trump doesn’t slide into this hole where they will attempt to bury him.

No more interviews with the Trump unless they are centered about this “issue”.


33 posted on 07/20/2015 8:54:38 AM PDT by inkfarmer
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To: SeekAndFind

McCain is mentally unstable. The people around him know that and so does Trump.


34 posted on 07/20/2015 9:03:20 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Say what you will about The Donald, but he has all the right enemies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That POS McCain is seen as taking the “high road”.....and Trump keeps shooting himself in the foot...it didnt have to get this far.


35 posted on 07/20/2015 9:06:53 AM PDT by rrrod (Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well there you go. The man said he’s no hero. I agree and I think we’re done here. Let’s instead talk about giving Iran the freedom to build a bomb. Let’s talk abt releasing a nuclear scientist that Iran desperately wanted released, all while not demanding the release of five American captives. That’s inexcusable. That shows weakness and that should be on events mind right now.


36 posted on 07/20/2015 9:27:54 AM PDT by catbertz
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeoman JellyBelly was the true hero for apprehending the mess stewards trying to lift the strawberries. It can be proven with mathematical logic.


37 posted on 07/20/2015 9:31:20 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Notice how McCain has softened his tone? He is scared spitless the truth about his POW time will come out.


38 posted on 07/20/2015 9:52:35 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: silverleaf

Sarah has stood staunchly by McCain, she honors his calling her to be wise President with him on their campaign.

Very sad that ... what ever caused their essential bowing out of the race by them. To give us OBAMA.


39 posted on 07/20/2015 10:16:49 AM PDT by geologist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In doing so, he engaged in pure deflection, a dishonest tactic, but to be expected of him.


40 posted on 07/20/2015 10:20:26 AM PDT by DPMD
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