Scarcely a week after Donald Trump’s campaign decided to accuse the father of a U.S. Army officer who died protecting his men in Iraq of supporting anti-American Muslim extremists, a group of veterans gathered near the Capitol on Thursday to demand that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) rescind his endorsement of Trump.
“The Commander in Chief of the U.S. military is the leader of one of the most diverse militaries on earth. Donald Trump is a bigot and a racist and he is unfit for that position,” said Nate Terani, who served in the U.S. Navy for a decade. “It should be the solemn duty of Republican lawmakers like Sen. John McCain to denounce and unendorse Donald Trump.” .
Terani and four other veterans came to the Capitol to deliver McCain a petition, organized by progressive group MoveOn.org in conjunction with veterans group Common Defense PAC, calling for him to revoke his support for the Republican presidential nominee....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/08/04/3805233/veterans-mccain-trump-unendorse/
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