Posted on 02/17/2017 3:05:59 PM PST by mandaladon
Arizona Sen. John McCain delivered a series of blows to President Donald Trump Friday during a speech in Germany, and at one point he compared today's political atmosphere to the Nazi years of the 1930s and 1940s.
"In the four decades I have attended this conference, I cannot recall a year where its purpose was more necessary or more important," said McCain, who never mentioned Trump by name during his speech at the Munich Security Conference but referenced his policies several times.
"This panel is going to ask us to consider whether the West will survive. In recent years, this question would invite accusations of hyperbole and alarmism. Not this year. If ever there was a time to treat this question with a deadly seriousness, it is now."
While making his case, McCain — who like Trump is a Republican — mentioned Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist. Von Kleist was part of the group that plotted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.
"What would von Kleist's generation say if they saw our world today?" McCain asked. "I fear that much about it would be all too familiar for them. And they would be alarmed by it."
McCain then tried to dismantle Trump's foreign policy (America First), his recent immigration order that critics called a Muslim ban, and some of the alleged untruths that have emerged from Trump's White House.
"They would be alarmed by an increasing turn away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism. They would be alarmed by the hardening resentment we see toward immigrants, and refugees, and minority groups, especially Muslims," McCain said.
"They would be alarmed by the growing inability, and even unwillingness, to separate truth from lies.
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Isn’t this a violation of the Logan Act?
Just asking, since the left brought it up.
Sure sounds like “Treason”.
Name just one democrat in the last 8 years who spoke out against his party and president the way that McCain consistently does.
Heck - Name one in the last 16 years!
Or the tast 20 or 30 years.
Open primaries. We run good people against him, but he always wins.
Censure. If that doesn’t work, recall. Have that man removed.
I don't know if he's stupid, or paid off. There is apparently a large cadre of internationalists who like the idea of getting rid of borders. They have lots of money and lots of influence nowadays.
You know, I hadn’t really worried about Trump being assassinated by someone of McCain’s ilk but him invovking von Kleist begins to make me wonder.
You can always count on a democrat to criticize a Republican President on foreign soil. I wonder what it cost to have the Germans keep him.
EXCUSE Me Mr. McCain..... Go take your medicine as you are losing your grasp of reality.
Don’t call it the “democratic party”. DEMOCRAT, DEMOCRAT,
DEMOCRAT, DEMO-CRAT!!
They’ve rode Roosevelt’s coattails way past time to stop
it.
Demo-crat Party
Trump needs to tell Congress that he won’t sign any of their bills until they kick McCain off all committees.
Hang him high.
Warmongering chicken hawk he is.
and his cross dressing cohort Linda.
Now.
For the younger generation...
Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed in 1989, at a cost of over $3 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many investors lost their life savings.
The substantial political contributions Keating had made to each of the senators, totaling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention. After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Cranston, DeConcini, and Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB’s investigation of Lincoln Savings, with Cranston receiving a formal reprimand.
Senators Glenn and McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised “poor judgment”.
Yesterday's service does NOT negate today's perfidy.
+1
Shut your traitorous mouth, you back stabbing bastard enemy of America.
Those are bizarre quotes, something is seriously wrong and going on with McCain.
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