“He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
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Trump said what he said because in his view, like millions of other Conservatives, myself included, McCain wasn’t any more of a war hero than every other service member on active duty. Moreover McCain was criticized by many who served with him for behavior thought to be less than admirable for an officer and a gentleman. And there’s no need to describe how much of an assh*le he turned out to be as a “Republican” politician.
Re: 214 - President Trump did not qualify his remarks as being confined to McCain - that’s a plain reading of his remarks. And regardless of what millions of other Conservatives believe, McCain is entitled to the respect of someone who was a POW. That does not mean he walks on water (e.g. Keating Five).