I was appalled when I came across the following Internet
report in which Donald Trump is attributed to have said of John McCain that
“He is not a war hero,” followed by “he is a war hero because he
was captured.”
Trump reinforced his position as follows: "I like people that weren't captured, OK? I hate to tell you. He is a war hero because he was
captured. OK, you can have -- I believe perhaps he is a war hero."
Those comments were made in the mid-west at the Iowa Family
Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa. Later today,
after this monumental gaffe, Trump tried to walk back those comments.
What
was this man thinking? Or, more
precisely, not thinking? His military
record is non-existent. He was given
four student deferments and a medical deferment in the 1960’s when the Vietnam
War was raging.
So, who is this man Trump to take on the military record of John
McCain, a 1958 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a Naval Aviator: Both his dad and granddad were four-star
admirals in the U.S. Navy.
