Trump heaps scorn on war hero record of 'loser' McCain
Washington
Donald Trump, known for his incendiary rhetoric on the 2016 campaign trail, lobbed his latest verbal grenade Saturday, dismissing the military record of Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war.
The flamboyant billionaire businessman, reality TV star and Republican presidential contender said McCain -- a decorated aviator who was tortured in a prison camp for five years -- did not deserve hero status for his Vietnam War service.
"He's not a war hero," Trump told a gathering of social conservative activists in the Midwestern state of Iowa.
"He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, OK?"
The 69-year-old business tycoon has never served in the US military.
He went on to assert that McCain "graduated last in his class" at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis in the late 1950s.
McCain, 78, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate against Democratic rival Barack Obama, was captured during a bombing raid over Vietnam in October 1967.
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