Hello?
‘I like people who weren’t captured’
In one of the kerfuffles that sparked early (and wrong) predictions that Trump’s campaign was about to implode, the Republican candidate appeared at an event in Ames, Iowa, on July 18, during which he derided Arizona Sen. John McCain as “
a war hero because he was captured.”
“He’s not a war hero,” Trump said at the Family Leadership Summit, during a discussion. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
The Arizona senator and 2008 GOP nominee spent 5½ years at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton,” where he was subject to repeated torture and two years of solitary confinement.
Trump almost immediately denied saying McCain was not a war hero, and then criticized the senator for not doing enough for veterans.
“If somebody’s a prisoner, I consider them a war hero,” Trump said.
WTF????????????????????????????