Donald Trump on John McCain: 'I like people who weren't captured'


Republican presidential hopeful and billionaire Donald Trump hit back hard in his ongoing tiff with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Saturday.
"He was a war hero because he was captured," Politico reports Trump said at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa. "I like people who weren’t captured."
McCain, a former Navy pilot who spent 5.5 years in a Vietnamese prison, told The New Yorker earlier this week that Trump's rally in Phoenix "fired up the crazies."
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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.
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