For The Record

He may be riding high in the presidential polls of Republican voters, but three former elected officials, including a prominent GOPer, said July 21 that Donald Trump had stuck a fork in himself by deriding the legitimacy of U.S. Sen. John McCain’s status as a war hero.

One unintended consequence of the Trumpster’s nasty blast that he preferred heroes who didn’t get captured to those who wound up being tortured by the North Vietnamese military was that it shined a spotlight on the repeated draft deferments he had obtained during the Vietnam War era, including one for a bone spur in his foot. And when two other Republican hopefuls with military service to their credit, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, criticized his attack on Senator McCain, Draft-Dodger Donnie lashed out at them as candidates trying to climb into the single digits in the polls and supplied his audience with Mr. Graham’s cell-phone number, leading to it being deluged with calls.