The Wall Street Journal:
It came slightly ahead of schedule, but Donald Trump ’s inevitable self-immolation arrived on the weekend when he assailed John McCain ’s war record. The question now is how long his political and media apologists on the right will keep pretending he’s a serious candidate.
Speaking at a forum in Iowa, Mr. Trump declared that Senator McCain was “not a war hero,†adding that “he’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.â€
Mr. McCain spent more than five years in a Vietnamese prison camp, was tortured to the point of lifelong disability, and yet refused an offer to be released before all of his fellow prisoners. Mr. Trump had a more relaxed war due to military deferments. The Trump dump drew immediate condemnations from most GOP candidates and others, but the political apprentice refused to apologize…. So full credit to Rick Perry, the former Texas Governor, who led the pack in saying even before the weekend that Mr. Trump lacks the temperament to be Commander in Chief. Several other candidates have now said the same.
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