In 2018, former presidential candidate and Arizona Senator John McCain (81) died as a result of aggressive brain tumor.
Despite being a Republican, he was one of Donald Trump’s very angry critics. The senator’s own daughter, Meghan McCain, also has an icy relationship with the former president.
Many people were very surprised that Trump’s daughter Ivanka appeared at the memorial service for him in Washington in 2018, with her husband Jared Kushner.
Full war of words: – A joke
Was not welcome
The turnout did not go down well with Meghan McCain. In an interview on the talk show “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” in 2019, she said that she would have preferred to see that they had not been present.
– I wish they out of respect had chosen not to come, if not for something else then out of respect for me. A funeral is obviously a sacred moment, and I thought my family had made it clear, or at least that I had, that the Trump family is not welcome in my presence, and that my father had been very clear on the distance between McCain “The family and the Trump family, so I was surprised when they were there,” McCain said Washington Post.
WITH FATHER: Meghan McCain pictured with her father, John McCain in 2014. Photo: Evan Agostini / Invision / AP / NTB
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During the memorial service, Meghan McCain also gave a speech in which she came up with a sting against Donald Trump. Among other things, she stated that her father was a “great man” and encouraged others to live by his example.
– We gather here to mourn the passing of an American greatness. Real goods, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never be close to the sacrifice he so willingly made, he said she among other things.
Since then, the relationship between McCain and the Trump family has been anything but brilliant. Although it has been more than three years since John McCain died of cancer, the former president has not stopped talking about the family. in negative terms.
– A villain
Most recently this week, Trump launched a frontal attack on McCain’s daughter. In a statement via his new spokeswoman Liz Harrington, he describes her as a “villain”.
The statement comes in connection with the launch of McCain’s new book entitled “Bad Republican”, in which she describes Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner as “funeral crashers”, according to The Independent.
Creates rage: – Evil
When she visited the TV show “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” on Tuesday, she elaborated on the criticism:
– They should never have come. They had nothing to do there. I remember seeing them – and especially her. They had nothing to do there, and that’s something that still provokes me, of course, McCain said.
In the statement, Trump labels her as a “bully”.
“Isn’t it funny that Meghan McCain, who has always been a bully and basically a villain, complains that she was bullied by the lazy people and the radical left-wing lunatics in” The View “, Trump writes.
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President Trump:
“Isn’t it funny that Meghan McCain, who has always been a bully and basically a lowlife, is now complaining that it was she who was bullied by the Slobs and Radical Left maniacs of “The View.”… pic.twitter.com/JmxlCFJepc
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) October 22, 2021
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Earlier this year, McCain resigned as co-host of the popular talk show “The View”, after what she describes as “toxic, direct and targeted hostility»Through his four years as an employee.
– I made it possible for her father to have the world’s longest funeral, designed and arranged by him, despite the fact that I was never, to say the least, a fan. In his very special way, he was a “RINO”, writes Trump.
“RINO” is a slang term that stands for “Repulican in Name Only”, and is used by Republicans to label their own party colleagues for not being conservative enough.
Meghan McCain has not yet responded to Trump’s accusations.
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The relationship soured
One has to go all the way back to the Republican nomination battle in 2015 to understand when the relationship between Trump and John McCain first soured. After Trump’s speech in Phoenix, McCain stated that he “helped to stir up the mood”.
Trump then responded by attacking McCain. In July of that year, he stated that McCain, who has a past from the Vietnam War, was not a war hero.
– He became a war hero because he was captured. I like people who were not caught. Ok? I hate to tell you that. He’s a war hero because he was captured. Okay, you can get… I think maybe he’s a war hero, Trump said.
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In retrospect, Trump has corrected himself, saying that he believes McCain is without a doubt a war hero. Still, the senator demanded an apology from Trump.
“I think he should apologize to the families of those who have sacrificed something in conflict, and those who have been imprisoned because they served their country,” John McCain told MSNBC.
McCain was a prisoner of war for six years after being shot down over Vietnam and returned home as a war hero after being severely tortured. He was a senator for six terms – over 30 years, and was known for being an independent voice, who in the last years of his life was strongly critical of President Donald Trump.
He was the Republican presidential candidate in 2008, but lost to Barack Obama.
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