The Donald seemed to walk back his comments about McCain’s service record right after the speech at the Family Values Summit, but then went on the attack on Facebook:
And on the Twitters:
In addition to doing a lousy job in taking care of our Vets, John McCain let us down by losing to Barack Obama in his run for President!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2015
Captured or not, all our soldiers are heroes!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2015
The Veterans of our country have been treated like third class citizens for many years…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2015
….John McCain has failed miserably to fix the situation and to make it possible for Veterans to successfully manage their lives.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2015
All he does is go on television is talk, talk, talk, but incapable of doing anything.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2015
I will make this right for our great Vets!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2015
It's a national embarrassment that an illegal immigrant can walk across the border and receive free health care and one of our Veterans…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2015
….that has served our country is put on a waiting list and gets no care.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2015
I have a proven track record supporting our Veterans. Veterans deserve universal access to care. VA scandal proves politicians are inept.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2015
And he also responded to Mitt Romney’s tweet:
Why would anybody listen to @MittRomney? He lost an election that should have easily been won against Obama. By the way,so did John McCain!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2015
See also his entire interview/speech at the Family Values Summit to get the entire context of his comments.