Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally to highlight POW-MIA issues on Memorial Day weekend in Washington, Sunday, 2016.
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The annual Rolling Thunder event started in 1988.
Almost a year ago, in July 2015, Trump said that senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who was held in captivity and repeatedly tortured by the North Vietnamese for five years during the Vietnam War, could not be considered a “war hero” because he was “captured”.
John Muller, a Navy veteran who served in the Vietnam War, said he was delighted Trump appeared at Rolling Thunder and he would support him for president.
“In a way I understand, because if you stretch the military too thin, then it’s not effective”, she said of Trump’s speech, though she added he needs to get more specific about his policy proposals.
Trump later sought to walk back his comments, stating that he never questioned whether McCain was a war hero but declining to apologize outright.
Going further, Trump hit on many “go-to” topics that are popular with military members, like fighting Islamic terrorism and building a wall on the Mexican border.
“Just like asking Jane Fonda to show up, it’d be a very, very bad thing”, McFadden said. “I hate to tell you”.
As thousands of motorcyclists cheered their support, Trump vowed, “We have to rebuild our military”.
But, he said, his campaign would not end if he loses in California. What he said about me, John McCain, that’s fine. Trump’s event received a great deal of media coverage as per usual, and even though the Times’ flag picture isn’t blown up or exceptionally blatant, there were plenty of pictures available where the controversial image is not seen.
Fox News is keeping tabs of the GOP’s who’s who who’ve decided against showing up at the Trump-led confab.
Sukeena said at first he was dismayed by the comment but no longer holds it against Trump and plans to vote for the candidate.
At a news conference at Trump Tower on Tuesday, Trump is expected to describe the outlay of the additional millions of dollars he is believed to have raised.
Veteran Art Bleich, 63, who served with the Marines in Vietnam, has made the ride from his home in Alabama to Washington, D.C., to attend Rolling Thunder for about 15 years.
The US congress and many states have written an assortment of laws and policies created to restrict government services to people in the country illegally. Some veterans said it was unclear when he was speaking.
Moving on, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s statistics, having a 600,000 crowd would mean that the Rolling Thunder riders would’ve practically had to match the District of Columbia’s entire population.
But we want to be fair here.
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Trump also spent the week fighting with New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, who happens to chair the Republican Governors Association and is considered one of the party’s brightest rising stars.
