John McCain Echoes Romney, Bashes Trump’s ‘Uninformed,’ ‘Dangerous’ Foreign Policy

In a statement following Mitt Romney‘s anti-Donald Trump speech, Republican Arizona Senator John McCain said he shared Romney’s concerns, imploring Republican voters to take a closer look at Trump’s views and lack of foreign policy credentials.

“I share the concerns about Donald Trump that my friend and former Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, described in his speech today,” McCain said. “I would also echo the many concerns about Mr. Trump’s uninformed and indeed dangerous statements on national security issues that have been raised by 65 Republican defense and foreign policy leaders.”

He continued:

At a time when our world has never been more complex or more in danger, as we watch the threatening actions of a neo-imperial Russia, an assertive China, an expansionist Iran, an insane North Korean ruler, and terrorist movements that are metastasizing across the Middle East and Africa, I want Republican voters to pay close attention to what our party’s most respected and knowledgeable leaders and national security experts are saying about Mr. Trump, and to think long and hard about who they want to be our next Commander-in-Chief and leader of the free world.”

McCain’s comments come after Trump said he didn’t consider the 2008 presidential candidate a war hero because he was a POW. “He’s a war hero ’cause he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured,” Trump said.

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