Posted on 10/23/2021 4:53:28 AM PDT by RandFan
Former President Trump attacked Meghan McCain and her family in a statement Friday, mocking her for saying she left ABC’s “The View” due to a toxic work environment and going after her father, the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who died in 2018.
“Isn’t it funny that Meghan McCain, who has always been a bully and basically a lowlife, is now complaining that it was she who was bullied by the Slobs and Radical Left maniacs of ‘The View,’ ” Trump said.
“In any event, Meghan should fight the Communists instead of explaining how they beat her, hurt her, and made her 'physically ill.' She should fight back against the Losers of The View the way she fights against very good and well-meaning Republicans, and she would do herself a world of good,” the former president added.
McCain recently announced her departure from “The View,” where she was the lone conservative voice for years.
In a new audiobook titled "Bad Republican,” McCain said there was "toxic, direct and purposeful hostility" towards her from her co-hosts.
Trump also attacked Meghan McCain's father.
“At the request of many of her representatives, I made it possible for her father to have the world’s longest funeral, designed and orchestrated by him, even though I was never, to put it mildly, a fan. In his own very special way, he was a RINO’s RINO,” Trump said, using an acronym for "Republican in name only."
In the statement, Trump continued to push the false narrative that he won the state of Arizona in the 2020 presidential election despite having no evidence for the claim.
Trump has continuously attacked the McCain family since John McCain died in 2018, with Meghan McCain firing back at Trump’s comments.
Meghan McCain recently said Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner had no right to go to her father’s funeral after Trump’s behavior.
"They should never have come," Meghan McCain said. "They had no business being there."
She hasn’t lived long enough to be vile as her dad was. I
doubt she’ll ever be in the circumstances he was, to garner
so much disrespect.
She’s an ignorant wanaa-be at best, a real threat to our
cause at the least.
Life is hell for those that produce and consume the perversion.
He had better, or else she’ll sit on him! 🦛
👏🏻🇺🇸💕
So if Trump went after your wife, you’d defer to his attack?
Of course not. I am not a political whore. I am not making him into a deity either.
I simply think that when a time comes to fight, you need fighters like Patton and Grant, not Vindemann and Milley.
And Trump is like one and not the other.
A fine essay!
My only criticism is the passage highlighted in red above, which somehow got garbled.
Might I suggest instead, "...60 is comparable in lethality to contracting the Common Cold."
Regards,
McCain also insulted Trump supporters by saying they were crazy, forgetting to mention that all these crazy people had voted for him 2008
So then back to my original question. Will Ben Domenech back up and defend his wife? Or is he a political whore?
Sorry, I don’t see what you are driving at. Explain whatever parallel or equivalence you are trying to make. Whatever it is seems to me to be outside the point.
By the way, I am not sure what point you are making.
The whole point I made in my post involved denouncing ostensibly conservative shrinking violets who think Trump is being mean or crass in fighting back against those who have slandered and unfairly criticized him and should somehow be above it all.
Are you asserting that I said that a political commentator who happens to be married to someone that Trump denigrates cannot or should not fight back?
The whole point of my post is about the act of fighting back and what kind of leeway should be granted to someone who is willing to use a flamethrower as a retaliatory weapon against a flamethrower.
I maintain that with Leftists, that kind of retaliatory combat is not only permissible, in the case of Leftists, it is required since they armor themselves against all other retaliation ranging from logical to moral. The only thing they understand, respond to, and expose themselves to is vituperation and genuine ridicule.
This guy you mentioned married into the McCain family. What does or doesn’t go on inside the McCain family is his business. He is a political commentator, and I expect he fully understood the dynamic when he married into it. It would be surprising if he wasn’t on-board with John McCain’s wholly underhanded, unprofessional, slanderous, and even traitorous assault on Trump via the dossier which he had a hand in disseminating. In conjunction with a foreign power, too, hence the label of treason.
If he doesn’t defend his wife when she is unjustly criticized, he is not only wrong and craven but is a cuckold to boot not to defend her if she deserves defending.
If he defends his wife because she is justly criticized (and I think she is) then he is wrong, and either defending her when she doesn’t deserve it, or an ideologic Never-Trumper or both.
If Trump fights back at some valid criticism towards him without having a leg to stand on, I am not going to back him or defend him. That is being a blind ideologue, ignorant, or both, just like McCain’s husband would be if he defended her.
Yes, that was exactly what I was stating. Trump’s statement wasn’t in defense of something recently stated or needing replied to. It was simply an attack. Ben is traditionally very defensive of Trump and his actions…..positive or negative. Now his wife has been attacked. Does he criticize or defend Trump?
The real point is, in a Republic where freedom of speech is a fundamental right, he can do what is right for him. Honestly, whether it is germane to the subject or even accurate isn’t the real issue, IMO.
In the same way in a Republic where there is real freedom, the decision to take a vaccine or not or to wear a mask or not is a choice best made by an individual, the choice of whether her husband fights back and defends her or not is (or should be wholly up to him)
If it was an unjust or unjust attack by Trump on his spouse he has the freedom to respond. How he responds will determine the ramifications for him personally or professionally. The response to bad or untrue speech is not censorship of speech, but is more speech.
In the end that is her husband’s choice.
And of course again goes back to my question. Will he or won’t he.
Well, it’s up to him, isn’t it? He married into that family. He made his choices. I don’t know anything about him.
And mcbrain called Tea Party people (probably synonymous w/ Trump supporters) “wacko birds”. What a rectum.
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