WASHINGTON - As Donald Trump laid the groundwork in 1999 to run for president as the Reform Party candidate, he made a little-remembered attack on the person he saw as a rival in a possible general election campaign: Republican John McCain. Many considered McCain a war hero for surviving five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and a television interviewer asked why Trump felt he was more qualified to be commander in chief. "Does being captured make you a hero? I don't know. I'm not sure," Trump said in the CBS interview. A few years earlier, Trump had bragged on a morning radio show about avoiding the Vietnam draft, remarking that one of the show's hosts who had gotten out of service by declaring he had a bad knee had done a "good job." Long before Trump's views of the military would emerge as a flash point in his 2020 reelection campaign - before he would shock the political world with the more widely seen 2015 attack on McCain, in which he said the senator was "not a war hero" and declared, "I like people who weren't captured" - Trump had a long track record of incendiary and disparaging remarks about veterans and military service. Many of his remarks are memorialized in television interviews and the tapes of radio conversations with shock jocks, dating to his years as a private citizen and businessman. Trump, who avoided military service by citing a bone spur in his foot, has disparaged veterans who were wounded or captured or missing in action, and he compared his fear of sexually transmitted diseases to the experience of a soldier, saying in 1993, "if you're young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam. It's called the dating game." It is a history filled with contradictions, of a man who...