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Donald Trump
attack on John McCain war record is 'new low in US politics'
The Guardian
Donald Trump attacked the Arizona senator John McCain on Saturday, for
being shot down while a navy pilot during the Vietnam war.
Trump, who has been in a war of words with the 2008 Republican nominee,
jibed of McCain: “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was
captured? I like people who weren’t captured.”
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His words prompted a strong response from Republican candidates for
president in 2016 – more immediate and forceful, indeed, than such
reactions to Trump’s recent comments on Mexico and immigration.
The former Texas governor Rick Perry said the remarks represented “a
new low in American politics” and demanded that Trump “immediately
withdraw from the race for president.”
McCain was held prisoner by North Vietnam for five and a half years,
and repeatedly tortured. Trump received several student deferments from
Vietnam while in college. After graduating, he received a medical
deferment.
Trump’s remarks came in a question and answer session at the Family
Leadership Summit, a gathering of social conservatives in Ames, Iowa,
at which a number of Republican presidential candidates were scheduled
to appear. Amid continuing controversy over his remarks about Mexico
and immigration, Trump is running at the top of most polls of the
15-strong field...
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