RUSH: I mentioned that Senator McCain was on The View today. When I heard that, I thought, “Have they added to the cast?” And I said, “No, he\u2019s a guest.” And we have a couple of bites here. Before we get to his appearance on The View today, last night C-SPAN3, History TV, Brian Lamb interviewing McCain about the legacy of the Vietnam War, and here is McCain. First of two on this:<\/p>\n
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MCCAIN: One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never, ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest income level of America with, and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. That is wrong. If we\u2019re gonna ask every American to serve, every American should serve.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, you know what this is? This is so patently obvious. Who would have been a high-income level person who found a doctor to say he had a bone spur? Why, I think that would be the Trumpster. I think McCain\u2019s going after Trumpster. Have you noticed something here, ladies and gentlemen, that they are trying everything on Trump that failed on Clinton? I mean, there are people who went after Clinton as a draft dodger, as an enemy sympathizer, as making speeches over at Oxford condemning the U.S.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s not just that.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re going after Trump on womanizing. They\u2019re going after Trump on lying. Now they\u2019re going after Trump on draft dodging — when, afterward with Clinton, none of it mattered. When people went after Clinton on this, the reaction was, “That\u2019s none of your business! It\u2019s none of your business.” When it came to the womanizing and the sexual harassment, the sexual abuse, “It\u2019s sex. It just sex. It didn\u2019t get in the way of his leading and doing his job right and leading the country. None of your business. It\u2019s just sex.”<\/p>\n
Now, Hillary says, “It\u2019s not relevant anymore. It happened in the past.” So everything they defended Clinton on, everything, they\u2019re now zeroing in trying to get Trump. Let\u2019s do a flashback. July 18th, 2015, Ames, Iowa, Family Leadership Summit. This is Trump during the Q&A. The moderator is Frank Luntz. He said, “Referring to John McCain — a war hero, five-and-a-half years a POW — and you call him a dummy. Is that appropriate to be running for president and talking that way?”<\/p>\n
TRUMP: John McCain goes, “Oh, boy. Trump makes my life difficult. He had 15,000 crazies show up.” Crazies. He called them all crazies. I said, they weren\u2019t crazy. They were great Americans. I supported him. He lost. He let us down. But, look, you know, he lost. So I never liked him much after that, \u2019cause I don\u2019t like losers.<\/p>\n
AUDIENCE: (laughing)<\/p>\n
LUNTZ: He\u2019s a war hero!<\/p>\n
TRUMP: But, Frank, he hit me —<\/p>\n
LUNTZ: He\u2019s a war hero!<\/p>\n
TRUMP: He\u2019s not a war hero.<\/p>\n
LUNTZ: He\u2019s a war hero!<\/p>\n
TRUMP: He\u2019s a war hero?<\/p>\n
LUNTZ: Five-and-a-half years in a POW camp.<\/p>\n
TRUMP: He\u2019s a war hero \u2019cause he was captured. I like people that weren\u2019t captured, okay? I hate to tell you.<\/p>\n
LUNTZ: Do you agree with that?<\/p>\n
TRUMP: He\u2019s a war hero because he was captured, okay? You can have — and I believe, perhaps, he\u2019s a war hero.<\/p>\n