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Trump stirs new controversy by criticizing McCain war record
AMES, Iowa —
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stirred up new controversy Saturday when he criticized the party’s 2008 presidential nominee, saying Sen. John McCain was a “war hero because he was captured” during the Vietnam war.
Speaking at a conference of religious conservatives on Saturday, Trump was pressed on his recent description of McCain as “a dummy” who graduated at the bottom of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy. Trump’s criticism came after McCain told an interviewer that the businessman and reality TV personality had “fired up the crazies” with his inflammatory remarks about Mexican immigrants during a recent campaign rally in Phoenix.
McCain served as a Navy pilot during the Vietnam War. He was captured after his plane was shot down and was held for more than five years as a prisoner of war. The moderator, Republican pollster Frank Luntz, described McCain as “a war hero.”
http://www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/trump-stirs-new-controversy-by-criticizing-mccain-war-record