Casting aside rare censure from Republican lawmakers, U.S. President Donald Trump aimed new blasts of invective at the late John McCain , even claiming credit for the senator's moving Washington funeral and complaining he was never properly thanked.
By the time the president began his anti-McCain tirade in Ohio on Wednesday, several leading Republicans had signalled a new willingness to defy Trump by defending the Vietnam War veteran as a hero seven months after he died of brain cancer . One GOP senator called Trump's remarks “deplorable.”
Trump's publicly nursed grudge against McCain has not appeared to alienate core supporters, some of whom had soured on the senator by the time of his death. Aware of this, GOP lawmakers until now have stayed subdued or silent though Trump sometimes infuriated them with his comments on their late colleague.
This week, Trump unloaded a new series of anti-McCain tweets in which he said he never had been “a fan” and never would be. Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia said not only the McCain family but the nation “deserves better” than Trump's disparagement. “I can't understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honourable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God,” Romney wrote.
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