'It's Politics,' Says VA Secretary of Trump Denigrating POWs
They got nuthin'. 
September 6, 2020 5:39PM ET
‘It’s Politics,’ Says VA Secretary of Trump Denigrating POWs
The secretary of veterans affairs shrugged off Trump’s past comments disparaging US prisoners of war during an interview with CNN on Sunday
By Peter Wade
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie shrugged off some of President Trump’s past disparaging comments made about US prisoners of war as “just politics.”
On Sunday, Wilkie was first asked by CNN’s Dana Bash if he had ever personally heard the president, as The Atlantic reported this week, call Americans who died in war losers and suckers. The secretary replied, “Absolutely not.”
Bash played a 2015 video clip of Trump ripping John McCain, calling him a “loser.” In the video, Trump said McCain was “not a war hero” because he was captured during the Vietnam War, adding, “I like people that weren’t captured.”
The host then asked Wilke: “Listening to that, the way he disparaged, not just John McCain, but all prisoners of war, do you understand why people might find the details of these stories we’re hearing now believable?”
Wilke responded, saying that the now-deceased former senator was a friend and adding that both McCain and Trump had helped him advance his career. But when the secretary started excusing away Trump’s attacks as “politics,” Bash corrected him.
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One of the best Futurama episodes: The Honking
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Trump calls these people 'losers'.
