Trump attacks 'foul-mouthed' John McCain

Donald Trump attacked John McCain on Tuesday, calling him "foul-mouthed" and claiming credit for the Arizona senator's primary win.

"The very foul mouthed Sen. John McCain begged for my support during his primary (I gave, he won), then dropped me over locker room remarks!," Trump tweeted, part of his rage-against-the-GOP tweet spree on Tuesday.


During a debate last night with Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, McCain said he pulled his endorsement from Trump because of the Republican nominee's attacks on women.

“When Mr. Trump attacks women and demeans the women in our nation and in our society, that is a point where I just have to part company,” McCain said in the debate, broadcast on Arizona’s PBS station. “It’s not pleasant for me to renounce the nominee of our party. He won the nomination fair and square. But this is – I have daughters. I have friends. I have so many wonderful people on my staff. They cannot be degraded and demeaned in that fashion.”

Tuesday's tweet is just the latest flare-up in a feud with McCain that goes back to the summer of 2015.

McCain in July last year told the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza that Trump had “fired up the crazies” with his inflammatory talk on immigration, and Trump retaliated by questioning the integrity of McCain’s military service in Vietnam.

“He’s not a war hero,” said Trump at the Family Leadership Summit, creating one of the biggest early firestorms of his campaign. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

Since then McCain has stayed mostly silent, but Trump would periodically attack him for “failing our vets” in campaign stops around the country, and McCain lashed out at Trump’s Muslim ban proposal, calling it “foolish.” The Arizona senator also lambasted Trump for criticizing Khizr and Ghazala Khan after the Democratic National Convention, but remained committed to Trump.

The five-term senator's support was steady until this past weekend, when he went a step further after initially condemning the 2005 video where Trump tells “Access Hollywood’s” Billy Bush that because he is famous, he can sexually assault women. McCain then pulled his endorsement on Saturday, after a flood of other prominent Republicans had done so.

"I thought it important I respect the fact that Donald Trump won a majority of the delegates by the rules our party set. I thought I owed his supporters that deference," McCain said. "But Donald Trump’s behavior this week, concluding with the disclosure of his demeaning comments about women and his boasts about sexual assaults, make it impossible to continue to offer even conditional support for his candidacy."

