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Did Trump say ‘John McCain isn’t a war hero’?
True
Confidence not measured.
Attribution: Confirmed. Yes. ABC’s retrospective directly attributes to Trump at the 2015 Family Leadership Summit: “He’s not a war hero… He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured” (S3P1). CBS also reports Trump afterward trying to limit or soften the remark, saying he would consider a prisoner a war hero and respected those captured (S2P2), but that walk-back does not negate that he said substantially equivalent words at the event. Attribution is established from supplied passages.
Accuracy: True. True. The supplied Fox transcript directly attributes Trump saying of McCain, “He’s not a war hero,” then adding, “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.” That is direct evidence he said John McCain was not a war hero, though the fuller exchange shows he immediately continued with a qualification about capture rather than stopping at the shorter phrase alone.