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ONCE again, Donald Trump isn’t backing down would have no comment about Trump’s remarks. “He’s saying that somehow if you’re captured
Although unrepentant, Trump allowed after the Iowa in battle you’re less worthy of honors,”
from comments that have inflamed the Republican event that McCain might be a hero after all, but said
presidential race. And some of his rivals are no longer people who “fought hard and weren’t captured and Rubio said. “It’s not just absurd, it’s offensive. It’s
treating him with kid gloves. went through a lot, they get no credit.” And he said ridiculous. And I do think it’s a disqualifier as com-
Sunday about the Republican race: “I’m certainly not mander in chief.” Rubio said as the campaign goes on
Republican presidential contenders Marco Rubio and pulling out.” and Trump commands attention, “it’s required people
Rick Perry said Trump, with his latest bombast, has to be more forceful in some of these offensive things
demonstrated he is not fit to be president. McCain spent more than five years as a prisoner of war, that he is saying.”
At an Iowa candidate forum on Saturday, Trump dis- enduring torture. He stirred Trump’s anger last week
missed Republican Sen. John McCain’s reputation as a when he said Trump’s comments about immigrants Perry, one of the few veterans running for president,
war hero, saying the aviator was merely taken captive had “fired up the crazies” at a Phoenix rally. said Trump has demonstrated he has neither the char-
after being shot down in Vietnam and “I like people acter nor the temperament for the White House. “Over
who weren’t captured.” Weeks ago, after Trump asserted that Mexican immi- the top,” the former Texas governor said of Trump on
grants are rapists and drug dealers, Hispanic leaders NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Really offensive.”
“I will say what I want to say,” were incensed not only about those remarks but about
the slow and halting response from others seeking the Jeb Bush, whose wife is from Mexico, took sharp of-
Trump said Sunday, claimed a strong record of sup- GOP nomination. But the fallout from Trump’s latest fense at Trump’s earlier comments as others hedged.
porting veterans and accused McCain of failing them salvo has spread quickly and indicates that at least After Trump’s comments about McCain, the former
in Washington. some of his competitors are losing their inhibitions Florida governor tweeted, “Enough with the slander-
about repudiating him. ous attacks.”
“I will do far more for veterans than John McCain has
done for many, many years, with all talk no action,” Rubio, a Florida senator, said on CNN’s “State of the But both Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas
Trump said on ABC’s “This Week.” “He’s on television Union” that Trump insulted all prisoners of war, not Gov. Mike Huckabee, while agreeing McCain is a genu-
all the time, talking, talking. Nothing gets done.” just McCain, the 2008 GOP nominee defeated by ine hero, sidestepped when asked if they condemned
Barack Obama. Trump’s remarks.
A McCain spokesman has said the Arizona lawmaker
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