Trump has won me over .
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
The same media that mocked Sen McCain for his arm range of motion are now suddenly his greatest supporters.
Their target is always what they perceive as the far right available target. Cruz, Walker, and Trump are in the crosshairs. Sen McCain, being left of those on the current headline issues, is now protected.
When he was running for pres, and there for the far right target in comparison to Obama, he was an idiot, not a real hero, and not to be trusted.
Bye bye Trump. You and your phoney conservatism need a vacation back in NYC. Maybe you can have a nice dinner with your pal Hillary.
McInsane called anyone agreeing with Trump on illegal aliens “crazies”. Seems McInsane owes We the People an apology.
He does not owe an apology for telling the truth.
Speaking of apologies, it’s the MSM who owe Trump an apology. I’ve seen numerous clips of his statement, and each time the clip is cut before he finishes his statement, i.e., that McCain may be a hero. Not one media outlet that I’ve seen has played or shown that portion of it.
George "Bud" Day and Orson Swindle, fellow POWs, told PolitiFact that POWs sometimes were forced to talk when they were tortured, but they tried to tell lies to mislead their captors.
"We were all tortured and we wrote confessions under the pressure of torture," said Swindle, who was a cellmate with McCain and is active in his campaign. "John McCain never collaborated with the enemy. He, like every one of us, submitted to severe torture. John McCain did nothing dishonorable. He was heroic."
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[On the original fliers slandering McCain:]
Day, a Medal of Honor winner who also is supporting McCain's campaign, said the flyer is "the most outrageous f------ lie I've ever heard."
The USS Forrestal fire canard has also been debunked by FR sailors.
If Trump doesn’t want to apologize to McCain,, that’s fine by me,, they have been holding their own private testosterone feud for quite some time,, and I see no reason to step in the middle and insist on an apology from either one of them. This is politics,and not for the thin skinned.
On the other hand, I strongly believe that Trump owes an apology to every POW and POWs family. Of course we do not know the circumstances surrounding each one’s capture,, some may have, indeed, been to foolish error on the part of the soldier,,. But to make a blanket statement Implying they were all at fault is just so WRONG! A real man would step up to the plate and admit his error, beg for forgiveness, and move on. Of course I doubt this is going to happen,, but it’s what should happen. I suspect this issue will not go away until there is an apology.
Sadly, I expect Trump to go third party,, taking Cruz along for the ride,, and single-handedly give us another 4, if not 8, years of Hillary.
I’m a.vet and I think what Trump said was fine.