APThen-Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. listens at left as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speak during a news co...

1. John Kerry, who knows something about having his war
record attacked, savages Donald Trump
AP
Then-Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. listens at left as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speak during a news
conference on on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, to urge Senate approval of an
international agreement for protecting the rights of individuals with disabilities.
Secretary of State John Kerry came to the defense late Saturday night of Sen. John McCain (R-
Arizona), whose combat record had come under fire earlier in the day by
http://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata&v=iDpgwJ6UJX8 Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump.
Kerry served in the US Senate with McCain for nearly 30 years before replacing Hillary Clinton as
secretary of state near the start of President Barack Obama's second term.
"I have known John McCain for more than 30 years. We've had our share of disagreements and still
do today. But one thing I know is beyond debate is that John McCain is a hero, a man of grit and guts
and character personified," Kerry said in the statement.
"He served and bled and endured unspeakable acts of torture. His captors broke his bones, but they
couldn't break his spirit, which is why he refused early release when he had the chance. That's
heroism, pure and simple, and it is unimpeachable."
Kerry went on to blast Trump without mentioning his name.

2. "If anyone doesn't know that John McCain is a war hero, it only proves they know nothing about war
and even less about heroism," Kerry said.
Earlier in the day during a forum in Iowa, the real-estate magnate Trump had questioned McCain's
status as a "war hero." Trump, who has been in a war of words with McCain for much of the past
week over his views on immigration, disparaged McCain for being "captured" during the Vietnam
War.
"He's not a war hero," Trump said. "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that
weren't captured."
"Perhaps he's a war hero, but right now, he's said bad things about a lot of people," Trump later
added.
REUTERS/Nancy Wiechec
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a campaign event in Phoenix, Arizona
July 11, 2015.
McCain's plane was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967. He spent five years in a prisoner-of-war
camp, where he was tortured. He has been an outspoken advocate for fair treatment of prisoners of
war, breaking with many of his Republican colleagues to close the detention facility at Guantanamo
Bay and clashing with the Bush administration over its use of "enhanced interrogation techniques."
Republican rivals quickly moved to condemn Trump's remarks, as many have for his assertion that
the Mexican government has sent "rapists" and drug runners across the border to the United States.
McCain took issue with a speech Trump gave last week in Phoenix, where McCain said Trump had
fired up "the crazies" in the Republican Party.

3. For his part, Trump has said he doesn't plan to apologize, even saying that McCain should offer an
apology to those he https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpgwJ6UJX8 called "crazies."
Kerry has also endured a highly public scrutiny of his war record. During the 2004 presidential
election, when the Democratic nominee Kerry ran against incumbent Republican president George
W. Bush, a group known as the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" disparaged Kerry's service and
attacked the awarding of some combat medals to Kerry.
The group's allegations were widely discredited, but not before they became a key theme of the
2004 campaign.
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