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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Phoenix on July 11, 2015. (Ross D. Franklin, AP)
Donald Trump says he won’t apologize to John McCain, <span style="color: Red;">*</span>even as 2016 Republican presidential candidates go after the billionaire businessman for his attacks on the 2008 Republican nominee.
“I’m very disappointed in John McCain because the vets are horribly treated in this country,” Trump said Sunday on ABC’s This Week.
Some Republicans are even calling on Trump to exit the race in the wake of his comments Saturday about McCain, <span style="color: Red;">*</span>who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
“He’s not a war hero,” Trump said during <span style="color: Red;">*</span>a forum in Iowa.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured, okay?”
Republican election rival Marco Rubio, appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, said Trump’s comments are “an insult <span style="color: Red;">*</span>to all POWs,” and are “disqualifying as commander-in-chief.”
Rubio echoed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Rick Perry, who said Trump’s “attack on veterans make him unfit to be Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, and he should immediately withdraw from the race for President.”
Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and other candidates — including Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton — have also denounced Trump.
On ABC, Trump said Republican rivals — “some of whom are registering 1% and zero” — are upset that “I’m leading the polls by actually a nice margin,” and trying to take advantage of the McCain flap.
Trump is feuding with McCain the wake of the businessman’s recent appearance in McCain’s home state of Arizona. The state’s senior senator said Trump attracts “crazies” to his campaign,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a term Trump disputed in arguing that his supporters are worried<span style="color: Red;">*</span>about the nation’s immigration system.
“A nation without borders is not a nation at all but John McCain has not been able to figure that out,” Trump said in a statement Sunday.
Trump said he has used his fortune to help veterans, while the national government is providing “horrible treatment,” and “politicians like John McCain have totally failed.”
He also gave no indication he plans to leave the presidential race.
“When people attack me,” Trump told ABC, “I let them have it back.”<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
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