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."
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