Posted on 02/14/2017 8:35:47 AM PST by BradtotheBone
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Tuesday that Michael Flynn’s resignation as national security adviser highlights “dysfunction” in President Trump’s White House and raises fresh questions about the commander in chief’s relations with Russia.
McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, praised Flynn’s “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 Flynn’s resignation is a troubling indication of the dysfunction of the current national security apparatus,” the Arizona Republican said.
“General Flynn’s resignation also raises further questions about the Trump administration’s intentions toward Vladimir Putin’s 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 Trump’s 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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When McShame requires a plane in the future, the CiC should say none are available. When he persists, pull an A-6 out of mothballs and give it to him to fly himself. Problem solved.
Hey McCain, thanks for your service. Now shut your pie hole.
ISIS’ crazy uncle. The war criminal should be in prison with Barry and Hillary. ESAD mccain, you putrid POS.
It might be worthwhile for Trump to appoint McCain to this position just to get him out of the Senate. Then Trump can pretend to listen to him for a while and fire him when gets out of line.
Yes, McCain, we know you are a Globalist hack, a Cheap-Labor slaver, an Establishment Republican shill, a traitor to your fellow prisoners in Hanoi, a piece of crap sh*tstain asshat pig****er who really needs a recurrence of fatal melanoma....
.... but do you have to prove it EVERY effing time.
McCain needs to be seriously looked at as being behind a lot of the trouble right now. He is just too mouthy. He NEVER picked on that creep Obama.
No ... it shows accountability. Something we never saw in the Obama administration.
I will celebrate the day, much as I did when Ted Kennedy died.
The two are identical in so many ways.
Actually that could work. Let the Governor replace him with a real conservative from SC, Keep fag boy for six weeks, out him as a gay and too easy to blackmailed, kick his ass good bye forever.
Arizona must have some great actuarial tables because Mccain just keeps ticking ...and taunting. Probably be a Senator in a wheelchair when he is 100.
McPoophead shows dysfunction of the brain 24/7.
That’s not a bad idea at all,bury him in the adm. somewhere and get him out of the Senate forever.
McCain has been unstable since way before he was captured by the Vietnamese. His time there just made it worse. He should be removed from office on the basis he is mentally unfit to serve.
Look in the mirror for a psycopath McCainiac!
McCain’s the biggest leaker in Washington.
I don’t think there is anyone on FR that likes Mccain.
We might all have to stay off of FR the day he dies...
McCain has been dysfunctional at pretty much everything he has done, including his run for President. He should just be quiet and quit reminding people what a loathsome creature he is.
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