Posted on 07/19/2015 7:55:55 PM PDT by WilliamIII
In a bylined article for USA Today, Donald Trump on Sunday said he doesn't need lectures from the other GOP presidential candidates, and has a proven record of his support for veterans.
Trump has been under fire from the large GOP field – with the notable exception of Ted Cruz – after saying on Saturday that Arizona Sen. John McCain is "not a war hero" and a "loser." McCain was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for more than five years.
Trump's criticism was sparked by McCain's criticism of people who support Trump's position against illegal immigration "crazies."
The Republican National Committee criticized Trump for what he said about McCain, but, Trump noted in his USA Today piece that "no one in the news media or the establishment, including the Republican National Committee, criticized" McCain's original comments against the Trump supporters.
In his article, Trump again slams McCain's record of helping veterans as well calling the senator weak on immigration and overly zealous in using the military.
"The reality is that John McCain the politician has made America less safe, sent our brave soldiers into wrong-headed foreign adventures, covered up for President Obama with the VA scandal and has spent most of his time in the Senate pushing amnesty," he writes.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
http://conservativebyte.com/2015/07/fact-checking-the-trump-mccain-fight/
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2013/05/29/john-mccain-war-hero-or-something-less/
http://polidics.com/ethics/fellow-pows-say-john-mccain-was-a-coward-and-a-traitor-in-viet-nam.html
http://www.vvof.org/mccain_hides.htm
http://antiwar.com/blog/2008/09/27/mccain-betrayed-viet-pows/
http://takimag.com/article/judas_mccain_guy_somerset/print#axzz3gOCRtr7x
I back up Trump on this for sure. He was helping military vets for years.
Here is Trump’s article:
I’m a veteran and this doesn’t really matter to me. McCain has done nothing about the borders, Arizona in particular, and veterans in AZ are dying while waiting months/years for appointments.
McCain called Trump’s Phoenix supporters “crazies”.
McCain called Tea Partiers “Hobbits”.
McCain called Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and a few other GOP senators “whacko birds”.
The RNC should have been calling down Juan on each of those occasions if they want to make comments on the statements of political figures.
Trump gave Juan McCain more respect than he deserves as far as I’m concerned.
lol
Let me get this straight
McCaine said Trump was exciting the crazies..
This hurt Trumps feelings so he said something that sounded like Mc Caine was not a hero , or maybe he really said Mc Caine was a hero.... but now it turns out the real problem was not what Mc Caine said about crazies, it is that
Mc Caine has not been a good Senator and looked after veterans and oh yea we need Obama-care for veterans.
The last I looked Mc Caine was not running for President...so why does Trump care what he does or did ?...and if the real problem is Veteran’s Affairs, other than tell us that he (Trump) loves veterans what is it Trump proposes to do about it ?
I get the feeling that there is no there there (like the hair)
... and then immediately retracting and clarifying that remark, saying that McCain WAS a war hero (Trump said this three times) or was PERHAPS a war hero (Trump said this once.) Trumps comments make more sense in context, which is probably why so many propagandists took them out of context.
Here's the YouTube video:
Hold on, the shits gonna hit the fan and don't say you didn't ask for it (Karl?)
If you read about McStains combat record,,, well the guy was worthless!
Trump is showing the GOPe how to fight...for that he has my respect.
Trump is sinking fast ...he better get out of the quicksand or he won’t be able to ride to your rescue
I have a feeling you're wrong. Heck, Trump's own article shows that you are wrong. Here is how he describes his history of supporting our vets:
My record of veteran support is well-documented. I served as co-chairman of the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission and was responsible, with a small group, for getting it built. Toward this end, I contributed over $1 million so our warriors can be honored in New York City with a proper memorial. I also helped finance and served as the grand marshal of the 1995 Nation’s Day Parade, which honored over 25,000 veterans. It was one of the biggest parades in the history of New York City, and I was very proud to have made it possible.
That's it. He helped build a memorial 32 years ago and helped put on a parade 20 years ago. I'll grant that it's a decent memorial (I used to walk by it every day on my way to work), but if that's all he has, he may not want to run around touting himself as some sort of amazing [or insert some other Trump self-loving superlative] supporter of vets.
Trump said this “The reality is that John McCain the politician has made America less safe, sent our brave soldiers into wrong-headed foreign adventures, covered up for President Obama with the VA scandal and has spent most of his time in the Senate pushing amnesty. He would rather protect the Iraqi border than Arizona’s. He even voted for the Iran Nuclear Review Act of 2015, which allows Obama, who McCain lost to in a record defeat, to push his dangerous Iran nuclear agreement through the Senate without a supermajority of votes.” Yo— Trump . Yo awesome!!
He could brave this out, another event-filled week like this past week and sometimes people ride out bad stuff. I don’t agree with the Donald on what he said; I would not dare say that about McCain’s military service but as for serving the nation as a Senator, McCain has been dour as well as his own name-calling, it seemed like he jumped on Michelle Bachmann as well for talking about possible Muslim extremist infiltration in the government. Bachmann probably had a valid point.
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