Posted on 02/14/2017 8:35:47 AM PST by BradtotheBone
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Tuesday that Michael Flynns resignation as national security adviser highlights dysfunction in President Trumps White House and raises fresh questions about the commander in chiefs relations with Russia.
McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, praised Flynns invaluable contributions in the fight against terrorism in a written statement released hours after the retired Army lieutenant general resigned.
At the same time, General Flynns resignation is a troubling indication of the dysfunction of the current national security apparatus, the Arizona Republican said.
General Flynns resignation also raises further questions about the Trump administrations intentions toward Vladimir Putins Russia, including statements by the president suggesting moral equivalence between the United States and Russia despite its invasion of Ukraine, annexation of Crimea, threats to our NATO allies, and attempted interference in American elections, McCain said.
The senator has been a vocal critic of Trumps relatively soft line on Russia, as well as his campaign-trail statements in favor of resuming the use of interrogation tactics that fit international definitions of torture. Doing so would violate U.S. law, and the president has suggested that he would defer to Defense Secretary James Mattis, who opposes such methods.
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Same here. For better or worse, I've always loved candidates who say things that nobody else wants to say for fear of being labeled as "politically incorrect."
I was thoroughly disappointed when McCain was the nominee and his opponent was so terrible that I had to vote McCain. Since then I have discovered that McCain is nowhere near worthy of even the low value I put on him back then. I wish he would go away.
I second that remark. I'd love to scream it right into his ugly mug!
The notion that firing Flynn was going to solve a problem is massively idiotic. The media, the leakers in FBI/CIA/NSA, the McCains/Grahams/Rubios, the entire dem party, and the Soros funded ‘protesters’ are going to double, triple, and quadruple down on EVERYTHING to undermine Trump and his staff.
Stupid, stupid move!!
McShame is a treasonous POS. Sealed military records - can’t be good!
Challenge you, in the morning, type in Yahoo.com and begin scrolling through their headlines. Bet’cha dimes to donuts there will be no fewer that six negative headlines skewing any and everything about Trump, his admin or his supporters.
McCain is like the 3rd string QB in high school, always riding the pine and bitter over the fact that better players were chosen over him to run the team. So he sits on that bench and just criticizes those who are on the field.
This asshole is more of a back-stabbed than Cruz.
Letting a little Seattle judge crack the door open on Trumps momentum and authority...
I’d had sent agents to have him arrested
Dysfunction? McCain is the national distributor.
It wasn;t all that long that a SITTING U..S President with a hot mic, told Valdimir Putin that as soon as the elections were over, he would be able to make concessions, but that right now he needed to act intolerant.
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