Trump denied ever criticizing soldiers who get captured in war, despite doing just that in July.
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At an eventful town hall held by Donald Trump in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Sunday, one attendee asked the GOP frontrunner about comments he made stating that Senator John McCain was "not a war hero ... because he was captured."
"I came here because you made a comment to John McCain that you don't think captured soldiers are heroes," the man, who was introduced as the father of a soldier who was captured and killed in Iraq, said into a microphone.
At first, Trump attempted to interrupt his question, denying he had ever made the comments. "Oh, no, no, no, I never did that," he said.
"What I want you to do is just clarify that for me," the man continued as Trump acquiesced, "because I think it's important for all ... the veterans in Ohio [to hear your answer], because I know what you were doing–"
Trump, who had walked over to the man while he was asking the question, interrupted him again.
"You knew what I was doing, you knew exactly what I was doing," Trump said, shaking the man's hand. "They are heroes just so you understand, real heroes, OK? You know that."
Trump listens to a question from the father of a POW.
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In July, days after an aggressive back-and-forth between the real estate developer and the senator, Trump denounced McCain at an Iowa summit.
"He's not a war hero," said Trump. "He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."
As a Navy pilot during the Vietnam war, McCain spent around five-and-a-half years in a brutal North Vietnamese prison, where he was repeatedly tortured, causing permanent damage to his mobility. Two of those years were spent in solitary confinement.
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