Meghan McCain finds President Trump's statement on National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day mighty disingenuous.
Trump on Tuesday tweeted a statement honoring "Americans captured and imprisoned by foreign powers while carrying out their duties to defend this great Nation." For obvious reasons, McCain was not buying this, writing that "no one believes" he actually cares about prisoners of war.
McCain, of course, was referencing Trump's infamous comments about her late father, John McCain, who was captured by the North Vietnamese in 1967 and not released until 1973. Trump had said when he was a candidate for president in 2015 that McCain is "not a war hero" because "I like people who weren't captured."
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Despite being roundly criticized for this statement at the time, Trump never apologized for it and has continued to mock McCain even after his death from brain cancer last year. Last month, he repeatedly tore into McCain nearly every day for an entire week, to which Meghan McCain said that the president's life is "pathetic."
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