This seems to be getting ZERO air time. He called McCain a hero three times, but wanted to be clear he was not an Audie Murphy war hero. And he wasn’t. He displayed great courage, but was not particularly successful in killing the enemies of America.
Actual quote: “He’s not a war hero. He is a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured.”
And this is true. And it’s worth adding for context that McCain accused Trump, among other things, of “bringing out the crazies”. It is worth noting in that regard it is a virtually CERTAINTY that McCain and Lindsay Graham helped create ISIS by secretly knowing about and agreeing to Obama arming and training supposed Syrian “rebels”, who have from the onset been on all accounts foreign born and committed to Islamism.
I think to this very day Obama is still providing arms to these people, in a war which continues even now, and to his enduring discredit and dishonor, McCain has not changed his position an iota, that I can see.
We can both respect past service, and call bullshit on present policies. McCain ran a shitty campaign in 2008 and that is part of the reason we got Obama.
I for one wish he would retire. It would help us remember the good things with greater clarity, rather than being forced into concluding he is as dangerous as Obama.