President Trump once again attacked the late Sen. John McCain on Wednesday, this time suggesting the Vietnam war hero should have come to him after he was first handed a copy of the Golden Showers dossier.
Trump teed off on McCain a day after saying he was 'never a fan' of McCain. This time, he returned to the topic of the dossier – which contained salacious and unverified claims about Trump's comments in a Moscow hotel room as well as claims of Russian influence over Trump's circle.
'John McCain received the fake and phony dossier. Did you hear about the dossier? It was paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton, right?' Trump said at an event in Ohio, drawing boos at the mention of his Democratic rival, who had a law firm fund opposition research after a conservative group first funded the research that became the dossier.
'And John McCain got it. He got it. And what did he do? He didn't call me. He turned it over to the FBI hoping to put me in jeopardy. And that's not the nicest thing to do,' Trump said.
Fox News reported based on filings that a McCain associate turned over the dossier to the FBI, along with media outlets, after the campaign.
President Donald Trump attacked the late Sen. John McCain again on Wednesday
Trump also vented about McCain's funeral – which was held in the National Cathedral and included ceremonial honors, though Trump didn't attend at McCain's request.
He took at shots at McCain's support for U.S. military intervention abroad, then groused that he never got a thank you from the McCain family for the McCain funeral.
'I endorsed him at his request and I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president I had to approve,' Trump said.
Trump brought up the infamous Steele dossier, which stated Russian agents had gained material sufficient to 'blackmail' him, and said the regime had been cultivating Trump for years
Referencing the Iraq War, Trump said: 'We're in a war in the Middle East that McCain pushed so hard. He was calling Bush, President Bush, all the time: "Get into the Middle East! Get into the Middle East!"
'So now we're into that war for $7 trillion,' Trump said. 'Thousands and thousands of our people have been killed. Millions of people overall. ... So John McCain loved it. I endorsed him at his request and I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president I had to approve. I don't care about this, I didn't get a thank-you. That's okay. We sent him on the way. But I wasn't a fan of John McCain,' Trump said.
Then Trump concluded, at an event meant to highlight job gains in Ohio and throughout the nation: ''We're all set. I don't think I have to answer that question, but the press keeps — "What do you think of McCain? What do you think?" Not my kind of guy. But some people like him and I think that's great.'
McCain associate and former State Department official David Karmer testified in a court case that McCain gave the first pages of the dossier to former FBI Director James Comey on December 9, 2018.
The president's latest comments came as the McCain controversy boiled over after Trump's weekend attacks on the longtime senator who was held captive for 5 1/2 years in a Hanoi POW camp during the war.
In recent days the controversy has brought in McCain family members, the Senate leaders from both parties, and other lawmakers who knew McCain.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said he will reintroduce legislation to name a Senate office building after McCain – following Trump's comments that he is 'not a fan' of the Vietnam war hero.
Lt. Commander John S. McCain III, a POW for over five years, waves to well wishers March 18, 1973 after arriving at Jacksonville Naval Air Station in Florida.
John McCain is administered to in a Hanoi, Vietnam hospital as a prisoner of war in the fall of 1967. McCain spent 20 years in the Navy, a quarter of it in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. On Oct. 26, 1967, McCain's jet was shot down over Hanoi during a bombing mission
John McCain is greeted by President Richard Nixon in Washington during the spring of 1973 after spending more than five years in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. Solitary confinement was McCain's fiercest enemy during his more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, an experience he says taught him confidence, humility and the ambition to pursue larger dreams after he was released
Schumer first raised the issue after McCain's death in August. He brought it up again after Trump blasted McCain on Twitter over the weekend, then doubled down when asked about McCain in the Oval Office Tuesday.
'I was never a fan of John McCain, and I never will be,' Trump told reporters Tuesday.
Trump's continued public animosity has pushed several GOP senators to weigh in with their own views.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell came out with a tweet calling his 'good friend' and former colleague a hero – but did not directly call out Trump for his comments.
Daughter Meghan McCain hit back at Trump Wednesday, saying her father 'would think it was so hilarious that our president was so jealous of him that he was dominating the news cycle in death'
McCain died of brain cancer in August. He voted down an Obamacare repeal and had a role in the transmission of the Steele dossier
Sen. Charles Schumer wants to name a Senate office building after McCain
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called McCain his 'good friend' and former colleague a hero on Twitter – but did not directly call out Trump for his comments
'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,' said McConnell.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who was McCain's best friend in the Senate and something of a protege, has been put on the spot by the situation. A former fierce Trump critic, Graham now backs Trump on a series of issues and has provided critical cover on the subject of the Russia probe.
'A lot of people are coming to John's defense now that called him crazy and a war-monger, so it's kind of interesting to see the politics of how this dispute's being used to bash Trump by people who were against both Trump and McCain,' said Graham in his home state, NBC reported.
Schumer shortly after McCain's death announced a plan to rename the Senate Russel Office Building after his former colleague, who had a reputation for working with members of both parties, as well as occasionally blowing up at rivals.
'I look forward to soon re-introducing my legislation re-naming the Senate Russell Building after American hero, Senator John McCain,' Schumer tweeted Wednesday.
His prior resolution was cosponsored by Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, a Republican who was a regular Trump target. The building's naming after Sen. Richard Russell has become controversial due to the Georgia Democrat's support for segregation and opposition to civil rights legislation.
Meghan McCain delivered another emotional tribute to her father on ABC's 'the View,' punching back at Trump.
'If I had told my dad, 'Seven months after you're dead, you're going to be dominating the news and all over Twitter,' she said Wednesday. 'He would think it was so hilarious that our president was so jealous of him that he was dominating the news cycle in death.'
Then she tried to turn the tables by bringing up cyber bullying – a top issue of first lady Melania Trump.
'Do not feel bad for me and my family,' she said. 'We are blessed. We are a family of privilege. Feel bad for people out there who are being bullied that don't have support.'
She continued: 'Feel people out there who are being bullied who don't have support ... There are kids committing suicide bc of cyber bullying on line. There are people going through rough time. ... We have 20 veterans a day committing suicide. Focus on these issues,' she said.
Trump attacked the late senator twice this weekend on Twitter, focusing on McCain's ties to the infamous Steele dossier that contains the unverified allegations the Russians have blackmail material on the president.
'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!, the president wrote on Sunday.
McCain was actually fifth from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, and regularly joked about his own academic performance.
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Main photo article President Trump once again attacked the late Sen. John McCain on Wednesday, this time suggesting the Vietnam war hero should have come to him after he was first handed a copy of the Golden Showers dossier.
Trump teed off on McCain a day after saying he was ‘never a fan’ of McCain....
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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