President Donald J. Trump shakes hands with a soldier and greets Coast Guard members during a visit to Fort Meyers, Fla., Sept. 14, 2017. (Photo: Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick Kelley/DoD)
President Donald Trump has attacked prisoners of war for "getting captured." Now he's ignoring intelligence saying that Russia is paying bounties for the heads of American soldiers.
In the latest Lincoln Project attack ad, American soldiers' faces from wars dating back to World War II when Nazis killed POWs with a machine gun, leaving their bodies in the snow. The Japanese beheaded American POWs. Some even ate their "still-warm bodies."
"He's a war hero because he was captured," Trump said of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). "I like people that weren't captured, OK?"
"No, Donald, you're wrong," the ad says. "They are heroes because they were captured. Thought we forgot?"
The ad was a collaboration between the Lincoln Project and Veterans for Responsible Leadership.
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