The very real and not petty reason POTUS will not honor or respect John McCain
Many, many articles that have been scrubbed from internet, McCain prevented the rescue of Vietnam POWS, even into the early 90s. I’ll find and post the article thoroughly vetted and written by a renowned author. The article has dissapeared from the net. The Documentary “Presumed Dead” (not accurate) the real reason why president Trump dislikes (I’d use a stronger word) John McCain. He made it his sole mission to abandon the POWs in Vietnam, the senator criticized and fought the families who wanted their soldiers back. Some were even spotted alive through US tactics into the early 1990s, after that they had died or never to be seen again.
http://www.mccainbetrayspows.org/people/4530777275
Vietnam POW Activists Called McCain ‘Songbird’ and ‘Manchurian Candidate’
Among groups who oppose John McCain, the most serious charges come from a small but fervent cadre of Vietnam POW/MIA activists who accuse him of being a collaborator during his time in the Vietnamese POW camps.
They call McCain “Songbird,” and say he received special treatment. Some in the POW community even believe he was brainwashed like Raymond Shaw, the character played by Laurence Harvey in “The Manchurian candidate,” who was used as a tool by the communists to destroy America from within.
Activists accused McCain of stonewalling the release of POW records because they contained evidence he had collaborated with the North Vietnamese.
The issue boiled over in 1992 after POW families and activists felt they had been mistreated by McCain during hearings before the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. In the video above (posted at Vietnam Veterans against McCain) which was apparently shot soon after the hearings, POW advocates and experts, as well as Republican politicians, including then-Rep. Bob Dornan of California, assert that McCain was stonewalling the release of POW documents because his own records included transcripts of interviews he gave to communist and other media outlets in which he said the U.S. military had deliberately bombed civilian targets in North Vietnam.
Members of the committee included Vietnam veterans among the senators — Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass), Vice Chairman Bob Smith (R-NH), Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), McCain and others. (The only Vietnam vet who opted out was Sen. Al Gore.) The committee had two objectives. One was to investigate persistent rumors that Vietnam was still holding U.S. servicemen as prisoners. The second goal was to create a plan for normalizing relations between the United States and Vietnam
McCain and other committee members traveled to Vietnam on fact-finding missions. Witnesses who appeared at committee hearings included Nixon era defense secretaries Melvin Laird and James Schlesinger and Nixon Sec. of State Henry Kissinger, among many others. In the end, no evidence was found that Americans were being held in Vietnam, and relations between the two countries were normalized.
Rough transcript of the video follows
1992 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIAs, Part 2: The McCain Factor
DR. JOSEPH DOUGLASS JR, author, “Betrayed: America’s Missing POWs”: Sen. McCain seemed to be one of those who was an obstructionist. He was not interested in the truth coming out. Who tried to attack people rather than learn what they had to say.
TRACY USRY, fmr Chief Investigator, U.S. Senate Minority Staff: No instance would he ever, ever give in and say there were POWs left behind. And my first question is, how would he know? Or not know? Just — that which is reasonable he never exhibited. And I don’t know why. Maybe it’s a guilt complex. [Edit.] Maybe he promised the Vietnamese something. Okay. I don’t know what it is. Maybe he actually believes that [no POWs were left behind]. That would be the saddest of all.