Trump Warns McCain After Speech on ‘Half-Baked’ Nationalism

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By Associated Press

October 17, 2017 at 11:00 AM EDT

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October 17, 2017 at 4:34 PM EDT

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Washington (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Sen. John McCain that "I fight back" after McCain questioned "half-baked, spurious nationalism" in America's foreign policy.

McCain, a former Navy pilot who spent 5½ years in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp and is battling brain cancer, offered a simple response to Trump: "I have faced tougher adversaries."

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