Posted on 07/18/2015 3:58:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ames, Iowa - Donald Trump confirmed two things during a stop in this central Iowa town Saturday: He has no class and he may well run as an independent when he does not win the Republican nomination.
There had been considerable public evidence of both long before his appearance here today at the Family Leader Summit but Trump, who is leading several national polls of the Republican primary, erased any doubt with comments he made about Senator John McCain and a prospective independent bid.
Trump was answering questions from Republican pollster Frank Luntz on stage when he declared that John McCain, who spent six years as a POW in Vietnam, was not a war hero. Trump went on to express his preference for soldiers who weren’t captured, suggesting a belief that prisoners of war have some say in their captivity. Luntz had asked Trump about his reaction to McCain’s comment that Trump had stirred up the “crazies” with his candidacy. When Trump attacked McCain, Luntz asked if Trump was comfortable with that kind of criticism of a war hero.
“He’s not a war hero,” said Trump. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” The comments clearly shocked the crowd at the summit, some of whom reacted with boos and shouts of condemnation.
McCain was shot down flying combat missions in Vietnam on October 26, 1967. He was taken captivity with a broken right leg and fractures in both arms. He was beaten and tortured repeatedly, in part because his father commanded the U.S. Navy in the Pacific....
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Good lord. McCain deserves every nasty word anyone has ever said about his Senate “service.” But attacking him for his military service? For being captured? Have you no shame?
DT didn’t bring up McCains military service. Frank Luntz did that. Dt only spoke the truth.
By the way, there were many vets at the Nevada event that McCain called a group of “crazies”. Maybe McCain can speak to how he trashed all the vets at that event.
So you’re sticking with blaming him for getting captured?
Unamerican scum.
We have a winner!
Everyone here should watch what it is Trump actually said, and why.
I just love (SARCASM) how many “Charlie Browns” fall for the media's “Lucy with the Football” schtick... every-single-time!
Have spent the afternoon listening to videos and reading links about McCain service and POW. statice. Trump is correct he is no hero. Just google there are multiple sites
His blocking the government from releasing all POW records is the most telling.
One suggested that he made over 30
Propaganda films. He has admitted to one
What if CRUZ/TRUMP jump on a third party ticket!!!!!!
Delusional. This will blow over faster than they can imagine. Per another FReeper, by next Tuesday is a good guess.
Trumps numbers may go even higher for the attack against him.
McCain, the guy Trump attacked for calling conservatives “crazies”...
Which makes you so mad.
Not just that, but many in attendance were vets. So McCain called all those vets “crazies”.
And Trump, a pretty smart guy, certainly realizes that if he does we will not have a Republican President elected in 2016.
If ¡Yeb! is nominated, I certainly hope Trump does run.
We should have some choice,
Hillary and ¡Yeb! are nearly indistinguishable.
I read that he was suffering from a hangover on that fateful day. I didn’t know until Trump pointed it out that he had graduated at the bottom of his class at Annapolis.
John McCain
The great betrayer
Gets freeper love
Screw Y’all
Did you join team nickcarraway?
With Florida becoming a winner take all primary state since I think last year, that is the plan that Bush will take the nomination. If this happens, they better go third party.
Is that aimed at me?
I have been very interested in the Red Baron for years. What amazes me, and I never realized because of his legend, he was only Twenty five years old when he died.
“Trump must not declare that he will not go third party if he fails to get the nomination! This is the only thing he can hold over the GOPe’s head to prevent whatever evil schemes they have in the works to deny him the nomination.”
+1
Spot on! Trump knows that the threat of a Third Party candidacy is his ace in the hole. It is making the RINOs and the Dems bonkers!
The heck of it is, I think he’d WIN!
If you have a chance, go see that museum near Boeing field just south of Seattle. It has amazing exhibits from WW I, WW II, and Vietnam war. There is nothing there to show any heroism by pilot McCain.
“Did you join team nickcarraway?”
Nah, I’ve been vocal in my opposition to Trump for far longer than him. I don’t trust the guy one bit, and I don’t really understand how anyone can.
Bush's audience of thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed. Bush did nothing to stop them.
YEARS later, the retractions caught up with the lie.
Anyway, it's not anybody's fault here, that the press decided to make this their topic of discussion.
Good point
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