Posted on 07/18/2015 10:16:30 AM PDT by servo1969
Donald Trump escalated his feud with Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain Saturday in a way that probably wasn’t the most politically astute.
Appearing at the 2015 Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, Trump decided to make the case that McCain is not a war hero. Asked by moderator Frank Luntz why he would call a war hero like McCain a “loser,” Trump replied, “He’s not a war hero.”
“He’s a war hero because he was captured,” Trump said sarcastically. “I like people who weren’t captured, I hate to tell you.”
McCain spent five and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison where he was routinely tortured after his plane was shot down during the Vietnam War.
After hearing boos from the crowd, Trump backed off a bit: “Perhaps he’s a war hero but right now he said some very bad things about a lot of people.”
Trump was referring to McCain calling the people who attended Trump’s recent immigration rally in Arizona “crazies.”
“This performance with our friend out in Phoenix is very hurtful to me,” McCain recently told the New Yorker magazine, speaking of Trump’s July 11 rally. “Because what he did was he fired up the crazies.”
The Washington Post reported Friday that Trump is trying to recruit a primary challenger in Arizona to try to defeat McCain in his 2016 re-election bid.
His military record sucks, there was talk that he was responsible for the carnage on the USS Forrestal but that remains unproven.
That pales in comparison compared to the DAMAGE this retarded MEGALOMANIAC has done to the Republic since he became a "Senator"
NO ONE has done more damage to the right in the last 20 years than this degenerate.
From his demented "campaign finance" reform to his demented Presidential campaign against a foreign communist and lately aiding and abetting ISIS, John McCain makes BENEDICT ARNOLD LOOK LIKE GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Not to mention burdening us with his FAT RETARDED LEFTIST DAUGHTER!!!.
Looks like the communist Vietnamese are still WINNING.
shark jump
Cook County. Hmmmm. Sounds like Illinois. Obunga country. And he’s concerned that Donald Trump’s bona fides might be less than simon pure. Isn’t that special?
how do you know that McCain was a “snitch”?
Because of his activities overall after release..
He’s a traitor... under no pressure(now) or under much pressure(then)..
If your a traitor then..... you just are.. disloyal.. no conscience..
He’s a Judas..
McCain the politician sucks but Trump is wrong to say this about his POW status. I still believe Trump is setting up the conservative base.
Wow! Even Luntz let the remark pass it was so benign! Luntz was after Trump’s heels pretty well at the start and even he let it pass.
Bill Clinton reportedly told Bush that Trump would be taken care of. It begins. I expect the media will see the Clinton Foundation butter their bread if they get right on that.
How can Trump withstand the Bush-Clinton cartel?
My whole senior class got deferred but for a handful. We were all headed to college which was the main deferment.
How about yours?
Too vague, but thank you for replying.
Too vague, but thank you for replying.
What do you know for sure?..
Agree about that. McCain flew the A-4. My “poison” was the F-14.
I dislike McCain intensely. He DID insult The Donald’s audience. They were, undoubtedly, hard-working Americans who put aside a day to hear another voice on a topic that concerns them. McCain is a disgrace and needs to take back his insult.
Nothing "for sure", only what I have heard and read.
He endured 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton
He had a broken arm, which the captors refused to treat.
When the Viet-Cong realized who he was, they offered to release him, but he deferred to the "first in; first out"protocal.
What do you know for sure ?
I am really curious to know about the "snitch" claim as I have never heard that before.
I am really curious to know about the “snitch” claim as I have never heard that before.
He’s always been a “snitch”... Eddie Haskell for real..
like he is NOW...
Still would like a source.
Still would like a source.
ALL sources was made top secret by John McLaim while in the Senate.. even to investigators..
you know.. for obvious reasons..
Thanks, I’ll check elsewhere :)
Thanks, I’ll check elsewhere :)
Try the nearest communist cell group...
they got dirt on everyone given to them by Obama’s FBI...
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