Arizona Sen. John McCain doesn’t think Donald Trump needs to apologize to him, but other prisoners of war.
McCain appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning to make his first comments since Trump’s controversial comments at the Family Leadership Council Summit on Saturday. At that event, Trump said he only thought McCain was considered a war hero was “because he was captured,” adding that “I like people who weren’t captured.”
When asked if he thinks Trump should apologize, McCain explained, “No, I don't think so. But I think he may owe an apology to the families of those who have sacrificed in conflict and those who have undergone the prison experience in serving their country.”
The Republican senator continued, “There are so many men, and some women, who served and sacrificed and happened to be held prisoner and somehow to denigrate that, in any way, their service I think is offensive.”
McCain wouldn’t get an apology from Trump even if he did want one. Trump has been trying to turn the conversation on McCain’s record on veteran care, telling the Today Show this morning, “He’s done a horrible job for the vets.”
Trump has also accused the media of misrepresenting his remarks on Saturday. “I said it at the news conference. I said it on the stage. The next sentence was, 'He is a war hero.' I said that, but they never want to play it,” he told the Today Show.
McCain was captured by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War and held for five years. “A great honor of my life was to serve in the company of heroes. I'm not a hero,” McCain said this morning.
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