From: slider@anashram.com

Footage of the moment Donald Trump referred to John McCain as a "loser"
has resurfaced after the president denied calling the late Vietnam war
hero the same rude name.

(recorded video)

Mr Trump denied reports that he referred to US servicemen killed in war as “losers and suckers” and refused to visit a military cemetery.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/video-donald-trump-john-mccain-loser-a4540421.html

When Mr McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate and senator who spent years in a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam, died of a brain tumour
in 2018, Mr Trump was angry at the official commemoration of his death,
the Atlantic reported.

Witnesses reported him saying: "We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral” – and become enraged when he saw flags lowered in respect for Mr McCain, who opposed Mr Trump's presidency.

“What the f**k are we doing that for? Guy was a f****** loser," the
witnesses reported him saying.

Mr Trump denied reports he was against the funeral, and said in a series
of tweets on Thursday night that it was his "honor" to approve the funeral
and that he did it "without hesitation or complaint".

He added: "Also, I never called John a loser and swear on whatever, or
whoever, I was asked to swear on, that I never called our great fallen
soldiers anything other than HEROES.

"This is more made up Fake News given by disgusting & jealous failures in
a disgraceful attempt to influence the 2020 Election!"

But video from Mr Trump's 2015 campaign shows him calling Mr McCain a
"loser" for his defeat in the 2008 presidential race to Barack Obama.

He told an interviewer: "He lost, he let us down... I never liked him as
much after that because I don't like losers."

He dismissed the interviewer's protests that Mr McCain was a war hero, retorting: "He is not a war hero... He is a war hero because he was
captured. I like people who weren't captured."

The furore over Mr Trump's comments about John McCain come after two
senior defence officials alleged that Mr Trump disparaged US soldiers who
died in war during a meeting in Paris on November 10, 2018.

Mr Trump was due to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in the city
but staff from the National Security Council and the Secret Service told
Mr Trump that rainy weather made helicopter travel to the site risky.

When they suggested driving there instead, the president allegedly replied
that he would rather not go at all because the cemetery was “filled with losers”.

Mr Trump said the story, first reported in The Atlantic, is “totally false”. At the time the White House blamed the cancelled visit on poor weather.

In another conversation during the trip, Mr Trump referred to the 1,800
marines who died in the First World War battle of Belleau Wood as
“suckers” for getting killed, according to The Atlantic.

Again, Mr Trump fiercely denied the claims, calling them “disgraceful” and branding the publication a “terrible magazine”.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, whose son served in Iraq,
said: “If the revelations in today’s Atlantic article are true, then they are yet another marker of how deeply President Trump and I disagree about
the role of the president of the United States.

“Duty, honour, country — those are the values that drive our service members. I will ensure that our American heroes know that I will have
their back and honour their sacrifice — always.”

White House communications director, Alyssa Farah said: "This report is
false. President Trump holds the military in the highest regard.

"He’s demonstrated his commitment to them at every turn: delivering on his promise to give our troops a much needed pay raise, increasing military spending, signing critical veterans reforms, and supporting military
spouses. This has no basis in fact."

### - it was hard to like McCain anyway because he was so extreme in his
views?

but was 'shot-down' & captured through no fault of his own + then horribly tortured for a number of years in captivity, and was only serving his
country at the time??

to thus denigrate him like that is really quite deplorable...

so a penalty shot is awarded for fouling! heh ;)

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