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John “last in his class” McCain
Twitter ^ | March 17, 2019 | Donald J. Trump

Posted on 03/17/2019 6:40:54 AM PDT by Trump20162020

So it was indeed (just proven in court papers) “last in his class” (Annapolis) John McCain that sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and Media hoping to have it printed BEFORE the Election. He & the Dems, working together, failed (as usual). Even the Fake News refused this garbage!


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; johnmccain; mccain; strawberries; trump; trumptweet
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To: boycott

Trump doesn’t attack with precision weapons. If he doesn’t carpet-bomb, he doesn’t waste his time. And in this case his attack is perfectly appropriate. It’s aimed less at McCain than at those establishment GOP dopes who made speeches last week at the American Enterprise Institute calling for someone to challenge Trump in the 2020 primary.


41 posted on 03/17/2019 7:09:48 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: Hang'emAll

LOL...I thought it was ‘Proctologist’ :-)


42 posted on 03/17/2019 7:10:18 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: PghBaldy

Before Trump drops is, I want to hear about Halifax, 2016.

Then Trump can drop it.


43 posted on 03/17/2019 7:11:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: KevinB

LOL!


44 posted on 03/17/2019 7:11:26 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: Trump20162020

What’s with this “lay off the dead” crap? McCain was a public political figure who made his own miserable bed before he passed. I’ll never suffer the physical pain that he endured, yet he wasted our personal time by not standing up to the pitiful poor black Junior Senator - which was pure cowardice. Later, he went out of his way to hurt President Trump.

By the way, is his funeral tour still on? I’d really like to attend.


45 posted on 03/17/2019 7:13:12 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: boycott

I agree. Trump should lay off the grade school level, ad hom attacks on McCain, regardless of the level of low-life political scum he was when alive. This isn’t 3D chess. It’s more like trying to play mumblety peg with the feet of a dead body.


46 posted on 03/17/2019 7:13:20 AM PDT by pt17
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To: Trump20162020

For what it’s worth...Here’s some McCain history ala Wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_and_military_career_of_John_McCain

Naval Academy

John McCain at the U.S. Naval Academy, mid-1950s
Having done well on its entrance exams,[5] McCain entered the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in June 1954, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.[40] He had neither been ordered to go there by his parents nor discussed alternatives; as he later wrote, “I remember simply recognizing my eventual enrollment at the Academy as an immutable fact of life, and accepting it without comment.”[41]

Ambivalent about his presence there,[40] McCain chose not to conform to the Academy’s rules and some of its traditions.[42] Each year he was given over a hundred demerits – earning him membership in the “Century Club”[20] – for offenses such as shoes not being shined, formation faults, room in disorder, and talking out of place.[40] His father came to the Academy to reprimand him on his behavior a number of times.[32] He hated “plebe year”, the trial by ordeal and hazing of entering midshipmen that would eventually weed out one quarter of the class.[43] He did not take well to those of higher rank arbitrarily wielding power over him – “It was bullshit, and I resented the hell out of it”[40] – and occasionally intervened when he saw it being done to others.[20][32] At 5-foot 7 inches[13] and 127 pounds[44] (1.70 m and 58 kg), he competed as a lightweight boxer for three years, where he lacked skills but was fearless and “didn’t have a reverse gear”.[44] In his final year, he managed the battalion boxing team to a brigade championship.[45]

Possessed of a strong intelligence,[46] McCain did well in a few subjects that interested him, such as English literature, history, and government.[20][40] There was a fixed Bachelor of Science curriculum taken by all midshipmen;[47][48][49] McCain’s classmates were impressed by his cramming abilities on mathematics, science, and engineering courses[50] and thought his low grades were by inclination and not ability,[20] while McCain would later acknowledge that those courses were a struggle for him.[51] His class rank was further lowered by poor grades for conduct and leadership, which reflected his sloppy appearance, rebellious attitude, and poor relations with his company officer.[50][52] Despite his low standing, he was popular and a leader among his fellow midshipmen, in what biographer Robert Timberg called a “manic, intuitive, highly idiosyncratic way”.[40] Good at attracting women,[20] he was famed for organizing off-Yard activities with a group who called themselves “the Bad Bunch”;[32] one classmate said that “being on liberty with John McCain was like being in a train wreck.”[40] Other midshipmen were annoyed by his behavior.[32] A June 1957 training cruise aboard the destroyer USS Hunt[53] found McCain showing good skills at the conn,[54] and the destination stop in Rio de Janeiro led to a dream-like romance with Brazilian fashion model and ballerina Maria Gracinda that persisted through a Christmastime reunion.[55][56]

McCain graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1958; he was fifth from the bottom in class rank, 894th out of 899.[40] Despite his difficulties, McCain later wrote that he never defamed the more compelling traditions of the Academy – courage, resilience, honor, and sacrifice for one’s country – and he never wavered in his desire to show his father and family that he was of the same mettle as his naval forebears.[57] Indeed, Slew and Jack McCain had not had sterling records at the Academy themselves, finishing in the bottom third and bottom twentieth respectively.[58] McCain realized later that the Academy had taught him that “to sustain my self-respect for a lifetime it would be necessary for me to have the honor of serving something greater than my self-interest”, a lesson that he would need to carry him through a “desperate and uncertain” time a decade later.[57]


47 posted on 03/17/2019 7:15:15 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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To: FrankR

Great point!

There are millions of Americans who mistakenly believe Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to “steal” the election from Hillary based in great part because of John McCain.

Every day since, and still to the present, dozens of media reports issued by the DNCPress keep adding fuel to this fake fire.

Yet when the word breaks about McCain’s role in establishing the FALSE dossier that lead to a FISA warrant and search against an opposition party candidate, no one in the media wants to run with the story???!!!!

On something so dastardly, unprecedented and really, truly un-American as to what the Obama team did, especially the FBI and Justice Department, and Trump isn’t allowed to say anything?

Hundreds of years from now, when future historians dissect the fall of the American Republic, they’ll note all the fellow bed-wetting Republicans who did NOTHING but complain about Trump’s uncouthness, but never lifted a finger to help the country fight back against the UNDEMOCRATIC forces against it.

SHAME on you NEVERTRUMPERS, not Donald Trump!

I spit on McCain’s grave.


48 posted on 03/17/2019 7:17:11 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: All

Go DJT! Show the comatose among us how to fight the coup!


49 posted on 03/17/2019 7:17:52 AM PDT by JonPreston (If you think we're treated badly now wait untill we're disarmed.)
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To: pt17

McCain is being outed for his crimes. Justice should not be political or about what is to be gained or not gained by truth telling.

What McCain did was wrong and people need to know about it.


50 posted on 03/17/2019 7:18:05 AM PDT by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Them bushes out thar, they movin’.


51 posted on 03/17/2019 7:18:25 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: bramps

This is a defense not an attack.
Glasses won’t help you at all, you need a white cane with a red tip.


52 posted on 03/17/2019 7:19:36 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Trump20162020
THIS is what the tweet is about, we'll hear lots more about Meg's daddy's involvement when all is declassified, POTUS is educating those who are unaware.

John McCain that sent the Fake Dossier to the FBI and Media hoping to have it printed BEFORE the Election.

53 posted on 03/17/2019 7:23:21 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (If only Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could talk.)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

Exactly.

Let’s see, all Americans should not dare to criticize dead enemies of the Republic, no matter what harm they did.

No! We need to keep telling the TRUTH!

FDR, the scoundrel who gave us the modern socialist state America has become, who sold out Eastern Europe to slavery and probably encouraged Japan to attack us to get us into WWII, was found dead in the arms of his lover, but don’t say so!

Woodrow Wilson was the ultimate anti-black, Jim Crow loving Racist who gave us the Income Tax and direct voting for Senators, thus killing federalism.

I’m glad when a Leftist dies, frankly. We will ALL die. When they do, at least their further harm to our country comes to an end.


54 posted on 03/17/2019 7:23:26 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: PghBaldy
I hope POTUS drops this McCain issue soon.

Should Christians drop Judas issue, too?

55 posted on 03/17/2019 7:25:09 AM PDT by nightlight7
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To: boycott
I wish Trump would leave out the insult to McCain. McCain was as sorry as could be but it won’t help things beating up a dead man.

That dead man left a lasting negative legacy. Most of all, one of his last acts was to try to undo the Trump presidency by promoting a fabricated anti-Trump dossier. That's not going away any time soon, so, Trump is completely within his rights to continue talking about how rotten McCain was and still is.
56 posted on 03/17/2019 7:27:15 AM PDT by adorno
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To: Hang'emAll
What do you call the last in the class at Medical School.

Doctor

Yes, but you wouldn't want him or her operating on your kid (or in the case of McCain flying your expensive airplanes). :-)

57 posted on 03/17/2019 7:27:55 AM PDT by KevinB (If I'm ever arrested, I'm switching parties.)
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To: Trump20162020

John McCain wasn’t last in class at the USNA. He was third from the bottom. I know someone who graduated with him. The joke was that all you had to do was be ahead of McCain on the Order of Merit list and you’d graduate. True story.


58 posted on 03/17/2019 7:30:45 AM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: DIRTYSECRET

From what little I know of Custer, he was not a great thinker but was a fierce warrior.

Douglas MacArthur was number one in his class. Robert E. Lee was second in his.


59 posted on 03/17/2019 7:32:07 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Meghan’s hoof prints are all over that Wiki article.


60 posted on 03/17/2019 7:32:38 AM PDT by KevinB (If I'm ever arrested, I'm switching parties.)
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