https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/10/politics ... index.htmlWhite House aide joked of 'dying' McCain
Washington (CNN)White House aide Kelly Sadler responded to Sen. John McCain's opposition to President Donald Trump's pick for CIA director by saying Thursday morning that "he's dying anyway," a White House official told CNN.
The official said Sadler, who is in charge of surrogate communications, [this is the person who's supposed to be in charge of messaging for other people speaking on Trump's behalf...it explains so much...] meant it as a joke, "but it fell flat." [A "joke" about a war hero dying of brain cancer fell flat? Who could have seen that coming?]
McCain announced last year that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer, and he issued a statement Wednesday calling on his fellow senators to oppose Gina Haspel, Trump's nominee for CIA director, whose ties to the use of interrogation methods widely considered torture have drawn significant criticism.
Asked about Sadler's comment, a White House official said, "We respect Senator McCain's service to our nation, and he and his family are in our prayers during this difficult time."[ But no condemnation or even criticism of the "joke"]
Sadler called the senator's daughter Meghan McCain on Thursday to apologize for the remark, a source close to the situation told CNN, although it's unclear what her response was.
Of course it's the callous, thoughtless, vicious tone set by the POS-In-Chief himself that creates an environment where a staffer might think this sort of vile remark would be accepted as "humor"....
It's completely impossible to imagine a staff member thinking this could pass for a joke at a staff meeting in the White House of either Obama or Bush 43...
Or most other administrations for that matter...
