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Trump said many people agreed with what he said

(CNN) Donald Trump expressed no remorse Wednesday for saying last summer that Sen. John McCain was "not a war hero," despite being captured in Vietnam and tortured as a prisoner of war.

The presumptive GOP presidential nominee's comments came just days after McCain reiterated his call for Trump to take back his comments about other captured members of the military.

"What he said about me, John McCain, that's fine. I don't require any repair of that," McCain, who recently said he would support Trump as the nominee, told CNN's Manu Raju in an interview.

"But when he said, 'I don't like people who were captured,' then there's a great body -- there's a body of American heroes that I would -- that I would like to see him retract that statement, not about me, but about the others," McCain added.

McCain, a Naval aviator, was shot down in 1967 over North Vietnam and fractured both arms and legs after being ejected from his aircraft. He was repeatedly tortured during his stay in the notorious "Hanoi Hilton" -- and refused early release when the North Vietnamese learned his father was a Navy admiral -- until he finally returned home in 1973 following the Paris Peace Accords.

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