Showing posts with label deferment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deferment. Show all posts

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Donald, "4 Deferment" Trump Doesn't Like POWs Because They Were Captured?

McCain is not well liked in the veteran community simply because of his record while serving in the Senate. (Too long of a story there) Still for Donald Trump to say "I like people that weren't captured, OK?" it is not ok because it means he just insulted all POWs in the process.

Trump questions McCain's bravery, says 'he is not a war hero'
CNN
By Mark Preston and Eugene Scott
July 18, 2015
According to The Smoking Gun, which obtained selective service records for Trump in 2011, he received four student deferments between 1964 and 1968, and later a medical deferment in 1968.
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump ignited a political firestorm Saturday by questioning whether Sen. John McCain -- who spent over five years as a prisoner during the Vietnam War -- is a war hero.
"He is a war hero because he was captured," Trump said, cutting him off. "I like people that weren't captured, OK? I hate to tell you. He is a war hero because he was captured. OK, you can have -- I believe perhaps he is a war hero."


By mid-afternoon, Trump tried to walk back his blunder on Twitter, saying "captured or not, all our soldiers are heroes!"

But his attempt at damage control seemed unlikely to diminish the anger his remarks had caused. They provoked an immediate outcry from his 2016 presidential rivals and the Republican National Committee, which has expressed concern about the impact his controversial remarks on immigration have had on the GOP brand.

For Republicans waiting to pounce on Trump and knock him from his position as the party's leading presidential candidate, the real estate mogul may have handed them an opening.
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