McCain ‘has made America less safe,’ Trump writes

Donald Trump says he has nothing to apologize for after controversial comments mocking Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) military record that sparked widespread bipartisan condemnation.

{mosads}”The reality is that John McCain the politician has made America less safe, sent our brave soldiers into wrong-headed foreign adventures, covered up for President Obama with the VA scandal and has spent most of his time in the Senate pushing amnesty,” Trump writes in a USA Today op-ed published late Sunday.

“McCain the politician has failed the state of Arizona and the country.”

He accuses the media of twisting his words and questioned why no one from his party condemned McCain for calling his supporters at a recent Arizona immigration rally “crazies.”

“No one in the news media or the establishment, including the Republican National Committee, criticized the senator for those comments,” he says, adding that veterans would get the care they deserved in a Trump administration.

Trump set off a firestorm over the weekend when he said that McCain wasn’t a “war hero.” That drew swift condemnation from a vast majority of the GOP presidential field. He is pushing back against their criticism, noting that he only has respect for “some” of his rivals.

“A number of my competitors for the Republican nomination have no business running for president. I do not need to be lectured by any of them,” he writes.

“Many are failed politicians or people who would be unable to succeed in the private sector.”