This may be similar to the last weeks of Steven Hawkings life. Many were not quite sure if the many opinions expressed under Steven’s name were actually from him or someone close who had a particular political bias. If any one is doing any
‘projection opinionating’ I would suspect either his daughter Megyn or his wife Cindy.
He started writing the book over a year ago, and it's being released now. The quotes are from the book. McCain has been working with the same writer who wrote his earlier books, so the writer probably knows him very well by now.
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“Flattery secures his friendship, criticism his enmity,” wrote McCain in The Restless Wave, which he co-authored with longtime aide Mark Salter.
That's true of many politicians and of many people in general. I'm not sure it's more true of Trump than of others in the public eye.