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Trump Renews Attacks on John McCain, Months After Senator’s Death

WASHINGTON — Tucked between St. Patrick’s Day greetings and repeat criticism of a rerun of “Saturday Night Live,” President Trump demonstrated that not even death provides a respite from his wrath on Twitter.

In Twitter posts on Saturday and Sunday, Mr. Trump renewed his criticism of Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who died in August from complications from a virulent form of brain cancer.

The president attacked Mr. McCain over his role in the Justice Department investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election. He then added that Mr. McCain “had far worse ‘stains’” on his record, including the senator’s decisive vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act.

Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier “is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain.” Ken Starr, Former Independent Counsel. He had far worse “stains” than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 16, 2019

So it was indeed (just proven in court papers) “last in his class” (Annapolis) John McCain that sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and Media hoping to have it printed BEFORE the Election. He & the Dems, working together, failed (as usual). Even the Fake News refused this garbage!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2019

The comments exemplified Mr. Trump’s new model for presidential communication, both in form and tone, exploiting the power and urgency of social media. But they also sparked swift condemnation, showing that the president abandons conventional boundaries of civility like not speaking ill of the dead at his peril.

“There’s no low with him,” John Weaver, a former political adviser to Mr. McCain, said in an interview. “There’s no bottom.”[Man, ain't that the truth...]

Mr. Trump and Mr. McCain had a long history of enmity. Mr. McCain provided a copy of the so-called Steele Dossier — which outlined a range of often salacious but unproven misdeeds by Mr. Trump and his associates — to the F.B.I. after Election Day.[Failure to do so after it was given to him, would have been a serious dereliction of duty.] Supporters of Mr. Trump have seized on the dossier as a way to try to discredit the Russia inquiry.

The battle lasted even through the senator’s death. Mr. McCain made it clear that Mr. Trump was not welcome at his memorial service, even as both President Barack Obama, who defeated Mr. McCain in the 2008 presidential race, and President George W. Bush, who defeated him in the Republican primaries in 2000, delivered eulogies.

And over the weekend, the tensions surfaced again, as McCain supporters denounced the president’s tweets — and, in many cases, the president himself.

Mr. Weaver criticized Mr. Trump’s avoidance of service in Vietnam, where Mr. McCain was held captive as a prisoner of war, his refusal to release his own grades while criticizing Mr. McCain’s academic performance at the United States Naval Academy, and the president’s desire to terminate the Affordable Care Act.

“These are the things he wanted to attack John McCain on? Seriously?” Mr. Weaver said.

“I am waiting for Republican members of the Senate who served with the senator for years and allowed him to be the point of the spear on so many issues,” he said. “Where are they?”[Good fucking question...]

Mike Murphy, another political adviser to McCain and critic of the president, said: “McCain was a hero. Trump is a whimpering coward. He was afraid to go to Vietnam 47 years ago and is afraid to face the legal consequences of his actions today.”

“He just has no empathy,” Mr. Murphy said. “He’s only concerned with himself.”

Mark Salter, one of Mr. McCain’s closest advisers and co-author of several books with him, was even more biting.

“Here is what will never change,” Mr. Salter said in a tweet. “John McCain will always be a better man than you in every way we measure a man’s character. You’ll never beat him.” [And that's what really gnaws at El Disgusto, and why he can't just give this up. He knows deep down that appraisal is spot on and it eats him up...He knows that no matter what he does, he will never achieve 1/1000th level of respect and acclaim that the late Senator enjoys, so he is obsessed with endless, pathetic and impotent attempts to tear him down...]

Sen. Graham defends McCain’s legacy amid Trump attacks

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham came to the defense of his former Senate colleague John McCain on Sunday after President Trump’s blistering attacks on the late Arizona Republican — but didn’t specifically call out the president by name.

“As to @SenJohnMcCain and his devotion to his country: He stepped forward to risk his life for his country, served honorably under difficult circumstances, and was one of the most consequential senators in the history of the body,” the South Carolina lawmaker wrote on his Twitter account. “Nothing about his service will ever be changed or diminished.”[Sadly, the same can not be said for you Lindsey, as you daily diminish your record of service by your bootlicking fealty to our wanna be dictator...]

“No one will ever love you the way they loved my father. … I wish I had been given more Saturday’s with him. Maybe spend yours with your family instead of on twitter obsessing over mine?,” she wrote on Saturday.

Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and that other one everyone forgets (Arkansas) tried to use that weasel line about "actually invaded" in order to join the Southern slave-ocracy... Oh oh the USA is going to march troops through us to get to South Carolina! Oh oh! Their INVADING!!! GASP!!! Even the early National Army wouldn't have marched through Arkansas so heaven knows what their excuse was.

wesw wrote: I am full of shit.

BoSoxGal wrote:Back on ignore you go, you complete waste of electrons. PLEASE go away! You are ruining what little is left of this board with your constant barrage of toxic shit. Can’t you get on Twitter and spend your online time licking your master’s asshole instead?

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