Trump: I Didn’t Call McCain a Loser; ‘Jeb’s a Loser’

O’DONNELL: “I want to give you the opportunity to respond. Because, he was especially tough at the town hall in New Hampshire, yesterday, where he called you a loser. Listen."

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BUSH: “...is a sign of real weakness when you call John McCain or Leo Thorsness or anybody else that is a POW, who served this country in a way that should be admired, American heroes. Calling them losers? Donald Trump, you’re the loser!”
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O’DONNELL: “How would you respond to that?”

TRUMP: “Well, it just shows you how they lie. Number one, I never called John McCain a loser, as you know. I like John McCain and I supported John McCain. I said he was a hero because he got caught, which is true to a certain extent. And I said he was a hero because he got caught, if you remember I didn’t call him a loser. So he has lied when he made that up. Leo, I don’t know. I don’t know Leo is. So he is making some other name, probably an American hero, and he made that up. And honestly —” [crosstalk]

ROSE: “He was another POW.”

TRUMP: “You look at the fact — yeah, but I just don’t know him, Charlie, and I never made a comment about him and I never said that about John McCain. But you look at Jeb, Jeb is a loser. He spent $110 million so far, he’s at the bottom of the pack or toward the bottom of the pack, he’s going nowhere and the only thing he does is attack me. That’s — you know he thinks if he attacks me, that’s going to show he is tough. But every time he attacks me, he melts like butter. He’s just a guy — I mean, it’s really sad. Every time I see an ad about myself, it’s him spending a lot of money, of special interest money. He’s not putting up his own money. He spends money from the lobbyists and the special interests to attack me. So, you know, look, I don’t see him going anywhere. The last thing we need, frankly, is another Bush.”