Posted on 03/22/2019 8:17:21 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump in an interview broadcast Friday criticized the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for giving the FBI a controversial dossier "for very evil purposes," keeping up a week-long series of criticisms of the former senator that has roiled the Republican Party.
Trump's latest fight with McCain, which began over the weekend and almost seven months after McCain's death, has centered on the president's seemingly festering resentment that McCain gave to the FBI a dossier of unverified claims about Trump and Russia that had been compiled by a former British spy named Christopher Steele.
“If you realize, about three days ago it came out that his main person gave to the FBI the fake news dossier. It was a fake and a fraud, it was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. They gave it to John McCain, who gave it to the FBI for very evil purposes. That’s not good,” the president told Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business in the interview aired Friday.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party's 2016 presidential nominee, and the Democratic National Committee tapped Washington firm Fusion GPS, which then turned to Steele, to conduct research about President Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin in 2016.
Trump also ripped into McCain for his vote in 2017 against GOP legislation to repeal ObamaCare.
“He was horrible what he did with repeal and replace. What he did to the Republican Party and to the nation and to sick people who could have had great health care was not good. So I’m not a fan of John McCain, and that’s fine,” he said.
A number of Republican senators have defended McCain and criticized Trump, though many others have refrained from direct criticism of the president.
The president insisted his beef with the deceased senator was started by the media.
“I didn’t bring this up, you just brought it up,” he told Bartiromo. “When they ask me the question, I answer the question. But you people bring it up, I don’t bring it up. I’m not a fan.”
There's your Russia collusion hoax.
Exactly so.
The Meg is going to be very pissy over this.
Naaaa
Mccain war hero.
Everything considered Trump needs to drop this. He told Maria on FBN this am that the press keeps bringing it up so he answers.
Dear Mr. President the next time the press brings up McCain just ignore them and move on. Thankfully McCain is gone and won’t do it again. You are not going to improve the situation with negative comments.
Sincerely,
Mad.
TRUTH
He told Maria on FBN this am that the press keeps bringing it up so he answers.
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No Comment sometimes is the best response or ‘next question please’.
Hey, Meggzy, aren’t you the least bit pi$$ed how they used your dad?
Senator, John McCain....Low Life, American Traitor & Turncoat...period!!! A repeat of Arnold Benedict...100%!!! POTUS, Trump is right on the money!!!
He’s just giving Traitor McCain all the disrespect he deserves.
And I applaud him for that.
“Mccain war hero.” Yeah, him and Jane Fonda./sarc
Not only did McCain spread the Steele papers around d.c., but sent one of his “staff” to England, on tax payer money, to pick up the dossier. He was not a nice person.
The NUT doesn’t fall far from the tree.
I say ‘bring it up, President Trump’.....tell the world what a vile man John McCain is, was.
Some folks say ....don’t speak ill of the dead......
Duh
Hitler.....Lenin......Pol Pot......Mussolini......all dead!....John MCCain
McCain should have gone to prison when he took bribes from Charles Keating He was complicit in the coup to stop and then overthrow the duly elected president. He died a bitter old man, but worse, a traitor.
Personally after what McCain assisted in doing to help tear this country apart for the last three years to fulfill his own ego Trump would be well within his rights to pull his coffin out of Arlington take it to the other side of the street from the cemetery and piss on it.
His personal dislike for the man who earned the job he felt he was owed put a country of over 300 million at each others throats.
he’s on my piss-on-your-grave list behind Fonda, Kerry, Obama, and Clintons,
Yeh right...And the headline will read....President refuses to ..................
John McCain might be gone but his evil lives on. And that is gone then people can stop talking about it. He wanted to be remembered, just like Hillary. She doesn’t want to go away either .
GO President Trump GO!
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