Posted on 07/19/2015 2:11:55 PM PDT by HomerBohn
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Donald Trump on Sunday stuck to his guns after igniting criticism over the weekend when he questioned Arizona Senator John McCain's status as war hero, and said the Republicans attacking him are irked by his recent polling success.
"What happened is, later on, the Republican candidates, some of whom are registering 1 percent and zero, and they’re very upset that I’m leading the polls by actually a nice margin," Trump said on ABC's This Week. "They’re extremely upset."
Trump has been at or near the top of several national polls recently, including a Fox News Poll out last week, which had Trump leading among Republicans with 18 percent.
(Donald Trump, president and chief executive of Trump Organization Inc. and 2016 U.S. presidential candidate, listens to questions during a press conference on Saturday at The Family Leadership Summit in Ames)
Trump's ABC appearance came one day after he ignited a firestorm of criticism after he said at the Iowa Family Leadership Summit that McCain, a former Navy pilot who was held for more than five years in Vietnam after his plane was shot down in 1967, qualifies as a war hero only "because he was captured."
Most of the Republican presidential candidates and the Republican National Committee swiftly condemned the comments, with the notable exception of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. So did press magnate Rupert Murdoch, whose Fox News network will be hosting the first presidential debate next month and will be deciding which of the 16 major Republican candidates get the coveted 10 seats on the stage.
A number of leading Democrats also spoke out against Trump, including the party's presidential front-runner, Hillary Clinton, and Secretary of State John Kerry.
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So the Republicrat RINO candidates think Donald Trump is unfit. What in the hell do these weasels think we've got now?
Lol...exactly! Who is more unfit? 0blama or Trump? Or, Hitlery! or Yeb!, for that matter.
Everyone should stop and think:
Why was McCain paraded down the street and made a national American hero with great fanfare when the other prisoners were simply released at the end of the war with no parades or great exhibits of great fanfare?
Why?
Answer: Because daddy was the Admiral in charge of the Pacific fleet....that’s why. The other “heroic” prisoners were simply “common folk” and not worthy of the reception that the bastard McCain received.
Trump was right: McCain definitely was not a hero since he did not share the spotlight with the ones he left behind.
What is to be gained from trashing McCain?
What is to be gained?
Finally someone sticking a pin in the RINO ‘hoarse whisperer’s hide.
You are so right!
Reality..
Truth.
The exposing of those who are the enemies of the constitution.
(BTW - My dad was 18 when his size 10 boots touched down on the beaches of Normandy).
Let them pile on Trump will have the last word. They will be left with egg on their face. And McCANE will finally have his payback from SP— who is keeping very quiet Remember she was privy to information and instruction on how to handle Jaunt’s problems
The main thing is for Arizonians to wake up and vote the guy out!!!!!
Finally.......
Probably nothing, but it’s sure fun....
They want me to hate him for slamming McCAIN...??!?
And then his fat sow daughter insults Trump...?
Wow, it’s like they want me to like him MORE...!!
Triple bonus if Jeb slings mud at him.
Fox News is RINO central so don’t put it past them to come up with a poll by tomorrow showing Trump’s support is sinking fast and Jeb is the benefactor.
Isn’t this already posted here on FR? The comments were taken a bit out of context, there is a tit-for-tat to the comments anyway, plus, the only ones really pushing this are the losing Republicans who desperately need Trump out since they have been completely sidelined. Better that they all, instead, quit. Besides, Trump has the integrity to stand by his comments, to clarify when needed, and this is another test to prove he doesn’t cower from the media or anyone. What doesn’t kill him makes him stronger. Finally, isn’t it refreshing to have a candidate simply speak his mind instead of parse everyone word? Even if sometimes they might not be PC. Yes, refreshing.
Gained? TRUTH
The True Military Record of John McCain Written by an Active Marine
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THE TRUE MILITARY RECORD OF JOHN MCCAIN WRITTEN BY AN ACTIVE MARINE.
9/03/08
McCain has never really earned anything. He is from a wealth pampered background and not fit to lead this nation.
A “war hero” doesn’t finished 894th out of 899 and still get stationed at a Navy champagne unit and promoted ahead of all but two of his 898 other classmates.
A “war hero” doesn’t crash three U.S. Navy jets out of sheer incompetence and ineptitude, including two during non-combat training sessions.
A “war hero” doesn’t get written up on drunk-and-disorderly, fraternization, disobeying orders, and insubordination charges more than two dozen times in less than three years.
A “war hero” doesn’t get promoted to squadron commander of the air field named after his own grandfather immediately after crashing his third airplane. A “war hero” doesn’t have all the military records that cover his time in Vietnam and all disciplinary actions against him censored and sealed “as a matte r of national security.” A “war hero” doesn’t get 28 medals awarded all after-the-fact “for bravery” for no other reason than being shot down and captured and then go on a celebrity public relations tour because he’s the son of two acclaimed Navy admirals. A “war hero” doesn’t repeatedly cheat on the wife who’s back in the states waiting for him, and then cheat on her more when he returns to the states, and then divorce and abandon her.
A “war hero” doesn’t systematically vote against every single pay and benefit increase for military and veterans throughout his entire political career, all the while claiming to be “the soldier’s Congressman,” and then take credit for the passage of a G.I. benefits bill he that voted AGAINST. A “war hero” McCain III lost jet number one in 1958 when he plunged into Corpus Christi Bay while practicing landings. He was knocked unconscious by the impact coming to as the plane settled to the bottom. McCain’s second crash occurred while he was deployed in the Mediterranean. “Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula,” Timberg wrote, “he took out some power lines [reminiscent of the 1998 incident in which a Marine Corps jet sliced through the cables of a gondola at an Italian ski resort, killing 20] which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral.”
McCain’s third crash three occurred when he was returning from flying a Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game. Timberg reported that McCain radioed, “I’ve got a flameout” and went through standard relight procedures three times before ejecting at one thousand feet. McCain landed on a deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees. McCain’s fifth loss happened during his 23rd mission over North Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1967, when McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. McCain ejected from the plane breaking both arms an d a leg in the process and subsequently parachuted into Truc Bach Lake near Hanoi. For 23 combat missions (an estimated 20 hours over enemy territory), the U.S. Navy awarded McCain a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars, two Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service medals. “McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat,” explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs — the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall of Saigon. “Since McCain got 28 medals,” Bell continues, “that equals out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat. There were infantry guys — grunts on the ground — who had more than 7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and situations where I’m sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good to them by comparison
The question really is how many guys got that number of medals for not being shot down.” For years, McCain has been an unchecked master at manipulating an overly friendly and biased news media. The former POW turned Congressman, turned U.S. Senator, has managed to gloss over his failures as a pilot by exaggerating his military service and lying about his feats of heroism. McCain has sprouted a halo and wings to become America’s POW-hero presidential candidate.
This article was written by an active, unnamed Marine. It was published by Gale Toensing founder of the Corner Report.com and she sent it to me. It is a true account of McCain’s real war record and evidence of his lack of fitness for the office of President.
What is to be gained by calling thousands of concerned Americans who support Trump mentally ill or "crazies"?
Did you forget who maliciously started this?
What is to be gained from trashing McCain?
THE TRUTH!!!Something that has been sadly lacking for a very long time. Has there been as big an outcry over Hillery’s LIES as there’s been about Trump calling out McCain for dissing thousands of Americans as “Crazies?”
When is Truth going to count?
When is Honesty going to count?
When is Kerry going to pay the price for being a shill for Communists?
Add to the list....,.....
Amen!
Hitlery spoke out against Trump?
That’s rich, considering how she treated uniformed members of the military like waiters when she was first “lady.”
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