The president criticized the late Arizona Republican in tweets on Saturday and Sunday. McCain died of brain cancer in August.
By Felicia Sonmez Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow March 17 at 11:30 AM President Trump is again training his fire on the late senator John McCain, nearly seven months after the Arizona Republican’s death from brain cancer.On Saturday, Trump quoted former independent counsel Ken Starr, who criticized McCain on a recent Fox News show.
Trump piled on in his Saturday night tweet, criticizing McCain — as he has repeatedly done on the campaign trail and in interviews — for his vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act in 2017. Meghan McCain tweeted in response: “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?”Returning to the subject of the Steele dossier, Trump incorrectly stated that John McCain, who the president claimed had been “last in his class” at the U.S. Naval Academy, had “sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and Media hoping to have it printed BEFORE the Election.
“He & the Dems, working together, failed . Even the Fake News refused this garbage!” Trump said in the tweet. The tweet contained two errors: McCain, a member of the Naval Academy’s class of 1958, graduated fifth from last in his class. And the senator was not made aware of the Steele dossier until Nov. 18, 2016 — after Trump had won the election.Colby Itkowitz contributed to this report.
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