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Trump warns McCain: 'At some point I fight back, and it won't be pretty'
The Hill ^ | 10/17/2017 | max greenwood

Posted on 10/17/2017 8:27:39 AM PDT by bkopto

President Trump warned on Tuesday that he would "fight back" after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered a blunt denunciation of nationalist forces that was seen by many as a thinly veiled attack on the president.

"People have to careful, because at some point I fight back," Trump told WMAL radio host Chris Plante. "I'm being very nice. I'm being very, very nice. But at some point I fight back, and it won't be pretty."

McCain responded to Trump's comments moments later, saying that he has "faced far greater challenges than this," according to CNN.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 115th; az2018; donaldtrump; draintheswamp; dyinjohn; johnmccain; mccain; mccainspeech; mcinsane; plante; songbird; third100days; trump; trumpinterview; trumpmccain
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To: odawg

Can’t be recalled, but can be impeached and removed.


141 posted on 10/17/2017 11:09:20 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: livius

Seems much like Hillary in that regard.


142 posted on 10/17/2017 11:10:39 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

It was the Skyhawk next to him that was hit and had a couple of bombs knocked off. The fuel caught on fire and engulfed all the planes from the squadron spotted on the aft portion of the flight deck, which was one of the standard spots for aircraft spotting for a launch.

I believe that is true, that including the loss of his plane over North Vietnam, he crashed or damaged several other planes.

However, back in the late Forties, Fifties and Sixties, crashing a military plane happened with such regularity and frequency that it wasn’t necessarily a barrier to a career. I read the statistics a while back on plane losses in peacetime during those years, and it was staggering...I had no idea.

I admit, that is one of the things I found out during my service, is that the military used to crash a lot of planes, but unless it happened in your direct locality in pre-Internet times (and it didn’t crash into an apartment building killing a lot of people) you would rarely if ever hear of them.


143 posted on 10/17/2017 11:13:55 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: rlmorel

Here I thought (or read) that the Zuni split open a centerline tank and that JP-4 was loosed upon the deck. Didnt know it was the a/c next to his.


144 posted on 10/17/2017 11:17:12 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: EDINVA

“McCain’s going to lose his latest ‘challenge.’ And I don’t mean President Trump. The senator should be spending time with his family, getting his affairs in order, and otherwise preparing to meet his Maker, not going out with thinly veiled attacks on the POTUS and his supporters.”

I really think that McCain is so full of hatred that it is literally eating him up internally. I don’t like McCain, but anyone that has that much venom on the inside, should be pitied.


145 posted on 10/17/2017 11:17:56 AM PDT by kagnew
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To: livius
Agree....he intends to do just that. He's evil Imo. I have seen over the years that whenever McCain shows up in a foreign country you can be certain nothing good is coming and conflicts follow immediately after. He's a match that strikes many fires.
146 posted on 10/17/2017 11:19:52 AM PDT by caww (freeen)
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To: Hulka

You know, I am glad that people don’t seem to take it too personally...because to be fair, it is ancient history to many, and their only exposure to it is a search on the Internet. I can hardly blame them to a degree, because I sometimes need to get set straight on things I see on the Internet, though I have become far less accepting of the reality of any of it...:)

This is something I know about, as I was actually in VA-46 (The squadron McCain was in at the time of the accident, and the institutional memory survived very vividly there, even though it was eight years later) and McCain was actually my CO in a training squadron for several months.


147 posted on 10/17/2017 11:20:27 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: conservativehistorian

I know. You have it in a nutshell. There seems to be no mechanism for a determination on mental competence.


148 posted on 10/17/2017 11:21:45 AM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: rlmorel

That is a whole different level of experience. How was McCain as a CO?


149 posted on 10/17/2017 11:24:35 AM PDT by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: SaveFerris

I believe it was one of those centerline tanks they carried on the A-4 since I think they were carrying a single 1000 lb bomb under each wing (those old degrading WWII era bombs) I am guessing that was their total load.

IIRC, the Zuni came across the flight deck from the Phantom, actually severed some guy’s arm at the shoulder, hit the centerline tank punching clear through it without exploding, then splashed harmlessly into the sea off the port quarter of the ship.


150 posted on 10/17/2017 11:25:57 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: caligatrux
I’m really sick and tired of hearing about McCain.

You and me both. Him and hillary have nothing I want to hear. The best thing they can do is fade away never to be heard from again. Best for them and best for the country.

151 posted on 10/17/2017 11:26:04 AM PDT by Boomer (The dem party has become the North Korea of American politics; unreasonable, dictatorial, fascist.)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

You are correct in that McCain won’t cooperate. He will continue to enact revenge over the things Trump said about during the primaries.

But anyone that can do grade school math knows trump does need McCain’s vote. That was in full display in the failure to repeal obamacare. McCain may screw him again on tax cuts. We’ll see.


152 posted on 10/17/2017 11:30:35 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: DoughtyOne; Impy; ColdOne; GOPJ; NFHale; Diogenesis
"To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain 'the last best hope of Earth' for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history," McCain said at the National Constitution Center, where he was awarded the Liberty Medal.

half-baked, spurious nationalism?

153 posted on 10/17/2017 11:32:20 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: JayGalt

It was interesting to me, because I lived overseas in Japan and the Philippines as a Navy dependent during most of the Vietnam war, and was completely tied in to the POW issue.

As kids, we wore bracelets that had the names of POW’s on them (I think I had Denton’s, who I kind of idolized in a way because he somehow reminded me of my dad...probably just the hair or something) and mine just corroded on my wrist, turning greener and greener until it just fell apart.

So, when I got to my training squadron (VA-174) McCain was the CO, and while many of the guys didn’t know much about him, I sure did. It could be my memory, but I recall he actually did fly the planes...I somehow had the impression years later that they wouldn’t have allowed him to fly due to his physical condition, but my memory says he did.

There was one odd thing about him that stands out in my memory. In the upper floor of the giant hanger that VA-174 had all to itself (where the administrative offices and Ready Room were) there was a looong hallway that ran from one end of the hangar to the other.

I went upstairs for something one day, and when I entered that long, dimly lit hallway (seems like it was only lit by the windows at each end?) I could see there was someone bent over the scuttlebutt that was about dead center in the corridor. As I approached and got closer, the person didn’t move. Just stood there, half bent over as if to take a drink, but not drinking or moving.

I realized it was Commander McCain. I was probably about ten feet away when he straightened up and walked away into a room without taking a drink. It looked like the whole time I walked down that corridor, he was just mesmerized by the flow of water from the scuttlebutt. When I think of it now, I often wonder if it was some thing from being a POW, and not being able to have cold water any time you wanted it...and now, as a free man...here it was for the asking.

It was just a strange thing I have often pondered.


154 posted on 10/17/2017 11:40:26 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Depraved, both of them.


155 posted on 10/17/2017 11:41:05 AM PDT by Califreak (All Alinsky All The Time)
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To: JimRed
McCain is obviously the official spokesman for Rove, Kristol and the neo-Con crowd.
156 posted on 10/17/2017 11:41:45 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: rlmorel

Makes sense. Usually weapons need some time to arm fully so they don’t harm the platform.

Wow, that poor sailor. And all those other guys. Horrible isn’t enough of a word.


157 posted on 10/17/2017 11:41:51 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: neverevergiveup

Really?

I believe he’s just an evil, greedy pile of stuff.


158 posted on 10/17/2017 11:42:50 AM PDT by Califreak (All Alinsky All The Time)
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To: rlmorel

Is it true that he watched the fire on closed circuit TV from a safe distance rather than lending a hand and then was ushered off the ship to R&R in a helicopter before even attending the memorial for the dead?


159 posted on 10/17/2017 11:43:48 AM PDT by KevinB (When you drink the water, remember the men or women who dug the well.)
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To: Cecily

He just neglected to specify exactly which country.


160 posted on 10/17/2017 11:44:38 AM PDT by Califreak (All Alinsky All The Time)
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