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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4604185" data-attributes="member: 54375">In 2015, shortly after he had officially entered the 2016 Republican presidential race, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/us/politics/trump-belittles-mccains-war-record.html" target="_blank">Trump said this of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain</a>: &quot;He&#039;s not a war hero. He&#039;s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren&#039;t captured.&quot; &nbsp;&nbsp; Following the death of US Army Sgt. La David Johnson in Niger in 2017, the slain soldier&#039;s wife (and a Florida Democratic congresswoman) said that Trump had told her on a phone call that her husband<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/18/trumps-alleged-knew-what-he-signed-up-for-remark-to-military-widow-is-worth-caution-but-fits-a-clear-pattern/" target="_blank"> &quot;knew what he had signed up for.&quot;</a> Last fall, Trump referred to his former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, a highly decorated Marine, as<a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/10/17/trump-blasts-mattis-as-the-worlds-most-overrated-general/" target="_blank"> &quot;the world&#039;s most overrated general.&quot;</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4604185, member: 54375"] In 2015, shortly after he had officially entered the 2016 Republican presidential race, [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/us/politics/trump-belittles-mccains-war-record.html']Trump said this of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain[/URL]: "He's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured." Following the death of US Army Sgt. La David Johnson in Niger in 2017, the slain soldier's wife (and a Florida Democratic congresswoman) said that Trump had told her on a phone call that her husband[URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/18/trumps-alleged-knew-what-he-signed-up-for-remark-to-military-widow-is-worth-caution-but-fits-a-clear-pattern/'] "knew what he had signed up for."[/URL] Last fall, Trump referred to his former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, a highly decorated Marine, as[URL='https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/10/17/trump-blasts-mattis-as-the-worlds-most-overrated-general/'] "the world's most overrated general."[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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