Donald Trump says most of his fellow GOP candidates 'have no business running for president'


In an op-ed published Sunday night, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump wrote that statements he made about Sen. John McCain are being "distorted" by the media, then pounced on his target, saying, “McCain the politician has failed the state of Arizona and the country.”
Trump caused waves on Saturday when he said, "I like people who weren't captured," in reference to McCain being a POW during the Vietnam War. In his USA Today op-ed, he accused McCain of having "abandoned our veterans." Trump said he has "always made supporting veterans a top priority," and as president would "build the finest and most modern veterans hospitals in the world." He also wrote that "McCain the politician has made America less safe, sent our brave soldiers into wrong-headed foreign adventures" and "would rather protect the Iraqi border than Arizona's."
After he made his comments about McCain on Saturday, several of his fellow GOP candidates spoke out against his remarks, and he had strong words for them as well. Without naming names, Trump stated that "a number of my competitors for the Republican nomination have no business running for president. I do not need to be lectured by any of them. Many are failed politicians or people who would be unable to succeed in the private sector."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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