Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Des Moines Register calls on Trump to drop out of 2016 race

Iowa's largest newspaper has called on Donald Trump to drop out of the 2016 presidential race amid the furor over the real estate magnate's weekend comments about Sen. John McCain's service during the Vietnam War.

At a conservative summit in Iowa Saturday, Trump, whom several polls have shown to be leading the Republican field, dismissed McCain's reputation as a war hero, saying of the Arizona Republican who was held for five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, "I like people who weren't captured."

In an editorial piece published late Monday, the Register said Trump's comments were "not merely offensive, they were disgraceful. So much so, in fact, that they threaten to derail not just his campaign, but the manner in which we choose our nominees for president." .... http://www.foxnews.com