John McCain's son puts Trump on blast for cemetery stunt

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

34% : McCain, who CNN reports enlisted in the Marine Corps when he was 17 and currently serves as an intelligence officer in the 158th Infantry Regiment, said that in doing so, Trump had disrespected the sacrifices of the people buried there.
31% : As I reported last week, two Trump campaign staffers clashed with a cemetery official where Trump had been attending a wreath-laying ceremony to honor soldiers who died in the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan.
28% : "Jimmy McCain appears to agree: "For me to be with [my father] towards the end of his life, hearing things [from Trump] like, 'he was a loser because he was captured' -- I don't think I could ever overlook that," he told CNN.
18% : "But Harris -- or the threat of Trump -- is converting plenty of other Republicans: As I reported last week, more than 200 former GOP officials -- including former McCain staffers -- endorsed Harris in an open letter, writing, "Of course, we have plenty of honest, ideological disagreements with Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz.
17% : Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign, denied the report of a physical altercation, while Trump himself has called the incident a "made-up story.
17% : Not only did Trump not serve in the military -- he famously claimed he had bone spurs, allowing him to avoid serving in Vietnam -- he has also openly denigrated those who have: He infamously attacked the elder McCain, saying, "He's not a war hero.
14% : Andrew Marckesano -- a Green Beret who reportedly died by suicide in 2020 after serving eight combat tours -- told the New York Times they were upset his gravestone had been included in a picture in which Trump posed grinning with a thumbs up at the gravesite of Staff Sergeant Darin Taylor Hoover, located next to Marckesano's.McCain also told CNN that he changed his voter registration from Independent to Democrat a few weeks back and would be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris this November, adding that he "would get involved in any way I could" to help her win.

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