Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain, said Donald Trump's insult to her father and other former prisoner's of war is not only "disgusting," but also take the focus off the failed Obama presidency.
"I don't know what he was saying," Meghan McCain said Monday on Fox News Channel's
"The Kelly File." "It was a comment from an extremely disconnected millionaire living in New York City. My little brother just returned from Afghanistan three weeks ago. He got to come home to hearing his father's heroism discussed on television by a man who deferred his time in Vietnam four times."
Trump said Saturday at an Iowa forum that McCain is considered a war hero only because he was captured, adding, "I like people who weren't captured."
Instead of the GOP debate focusing on the failures of Obama and the Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, the press is locked on Republican infighting and Trump's outrageous comments, she said.
"Any discussion about any veteran's heroism at all has no place in the national dialogue whatsoever," Meghan McCain said, adding that that included that Swift boat discussion against current Defense Secretary John Kerry when he was the Democratic nominee in 2004.
Meanwhile, John McCain's son, Jack McCain, appeared on
CNN Monday, saying "I hope his personality has shown through. Whether it was an offhanded comment or not, if that's his true belief, then there needs to be some serious soul-searching as to whether or not he is a viable candidate for president."
Trump must understand he's running to be the commander in chief of the United States military, Jack McCain said.
"When you're doing so, if an individual gets rolled up and becomes a prisoner of war, then is he going to abandon them simply because he doesn't like people who are captured?" he said.
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