Following his attack on Mexican immigrants, a storm of anger has greeted the latest outburst from Donald Trump, the early frontrunner for the Republican nomination in the US presidential race.
Several leading party figures have castigated the billionaire business mogul and reality TV star, after he questioned John McCain’s war record.
The senator was held prisoner in Vietnam for over five years and repeatedly tortured.
“He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, okay. I hate to tell you. He is a war hero, because he was captured. And I believe, perhaps he’s a war hero, but right now, he’s said some very bad things about a lot of people,” Trump said during a meeting of social conservatives in Iowa.
There was no immediate reaction from the 2008 presidential candidate himself, who’s clashed several times with Trump.
But McCain’s daughter Meghan made clear her feelings on Twitter.
I can’t believe what I am reading this morning. Horrified. Di
