Picking a fight with McCain was bound to help Trump, right?
Yesterday, McCain refused to say he was comfortable with Trump having control of nuclear weapons. Said the American people will have to decide.
QUESTION: Are you comfortable with Donald Trump possibly having control of the nuclear arsenal?
McCAIN: [Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering.] Anyone that the people of this country choose to be the commander in chief and the President of the United States — therefore can lead this country, and will lead in a responsible fashion. Anyone who is elected president fairly in this country. And that’s the way that our democratic system works. That’s how our government works. The American people select the next president of the United States, knowing full well what the role of the commander in chief is. Therefore, I have the utmost respect for the verdict of the people.
WaPo: Greg Sargent: "This 30 second video is absolutely devastating for Donald Trump"
Greg Sargent points out how devastating this is:
Let’s pause to consider how devastating this one moment is — or should be — for Trump. The 2008 Republican presidential nominee and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, a man who is widely seen as a war hero — who has been tapped by the Sunday shows to hold forth on foreign policy and national security issues probably hundreds of times — declined to say whether he would be comfortable with putting Trump in charge of the maximal destructive power of the American military.
WaPo: Greg Sargent: "This 30 second video is absolutely devastating for Donald Trump"
This is the issue that will destroy Trump. Unfit to have control of nuclear weapons. Dangerous to all living things. Too unstable to trust with that kind of power.
As Hillary said at the Democratic National Convention:
“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.”