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Donald Trump warned John McCain that he (Trump) “fight[s] back,” seemingly in reference to a speech McCain gave on fervent nationalism and a leadership vacuum in Washington, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune is reporting.
Speaking to Washington radio station WMAL on Tuesday, Trump lashed out at the Arizona senator for his speech, during which McCain questioned “half-baked, spurious nationalism.”
“People have to be careful because at some point I fight back.”
On of McCain personally, whom Trump has previously criticized as not being a true war hero because he was captured (McCain spent over five years being tortured in a Vietnamese POW camp), Trump had this to say:
“I have faced tougher adversaries.”
The source of the rancor is a speech John McCain gave on Monday. As Slate reports, McCain was speaking to the non-partisan National Constitution Center, where he received the organization’s Liberty Medal. In his acceptance speech, McCain had harsh words about fervent nationalism and the direction the country is taking.