Trump's ranting about John McCain again: Dead veteran and politician was 'not my kind of guy, but some people like him'
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday escalated his unrelenting attacks on the late senator from Arizona and former GOP presidential nominee John McCain, who even in death has remained one of Trump’s top targets for criticism as fellow Republicans have repeatedly begged him to stop.
, and it came amid an outpouring of statements in recent days praising McCain in the face of Trump’s attacks.“It’s deplorable what he said,” Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, said in an interview with Atlanta-based Georgia Public Broadcasting earlier Wednesday, referring to previous Trump attacks on McCain. “It will be deplorable seven months from now, if he says it again, and I will continue to speak out. . . .
Animosity between Trump, who received draft deferments from military service, and McCain stretches back decades and came to a head during the 2016 campaign, when Trump declared that McCain was “not a war hero,” because he had been captured after his plane was shot down over North Vietnam. Aides say the new round of frustrations over McCain was fueled by a news report Trump saw recently about McCain’s role in handing over a copy of an intelligence dossier to the FBI after the 2016 election.
At Trump’s event in Lima, Fred Creech, a 61-year-old welder from Wapakoneta, Ohio, said he was a Trump supporter who appreciated the president’s visit but said he was not thrilled by the extended anti-McCain diatribe. Today and every day I miss my good friend John McCain. It was a blessing to serve alongside a rare patriot and genuine American hero in the Senate. His memory continues to remind me every day that our nation is sustained by the sacrifices of heroes.
Beto O’Rourke, appearing at a campaign stop in Conway, New Hampshire, pointed to McCain’s disavowal of racial attacks in the 2008 presidential race against Barack Obama.
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