Karl Rove said Monday that he had “nothing to do” with a whisper campaign during the 2000 Republican presidential primary claiming Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had an illegitimate black child.
Rove, who was working for then-Gov. George W. Bush, said during an interview on NBC’s “Today Show” that the rumor came from “a professor at Bob Jones University” and not the Bush campaign.
https://www.politico.com/story/2010/03/rove-denies-role-in-mccain-rumor-034075
In any case, thank God McCain was not president when 9/11 hit.