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Fact-check: “Did Donald Trump say "John McCain isn't a war hero"”
Verdict: Partly True (90% confidence)
The documented record — C-SPAN video, a CNN contemporaneous transcript, and contemporaneous POLITICO reporting with direct attribution — confirms that Trump stated 'He's not a war hero' on July 18, 2015, at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa. However, the claim as commonly rendered omits that in the same exchange Trump immediately added 'He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured' — a formulation that both conceded and undercut the 'war hero' designati…
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